Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in \u201cAisha\u201d as a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland and struggling to overcome one bureaucratic obstacle after another.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Writer-director Frank Berry\u2019s film never devolves into melodrama \u2013 if anything, it may be understated to a fault \u2013 but he grounds her plight in an authentic mixture of daily frustrations and sporadic joys. The absurdism of the consistent hardships she endures is maddening: An administrator at the accommodation center where she lives won\u2019t hand her an important piece of mail she needs, so she misses the bus to her part-time job at a hair salon, where the owner scolds her for her tardiness. It\u2019s that sort of thing, day in and day out. She just can’t seem to catch a break. There\u2019s racism behind some of these roadblocks, as well as a certain sadism. To borrow a phrase that\u2019s been used repeatedly in recent years to describe the treatment of immigrants to America, the cruelty is the point.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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