Nearly two decades ago, Megan Mylan co-directed “Lost Boys of Sudan,” a memorable documentary chronicling hope and upheaval among seven young men who landed in the U.S.
after surviving village massacres during that nation’s second civil war.
(There has since been a third.) Enough has happened in the interval that Mylan’s new “Simple as Water” arrives in a very different climate, where such conflicts and their refugees are sociopolitical issues the world over.Here, the subjects are four families pried apart by Syria’s ongoing civil war, their optimism if not their determination ebbing in the face of bureaucratic and other hurdles to reunion.
Portraying exiles stuck in a holding pattern over which they have little control, “Water” is perhaps inevitably not as engrossing as “Lost Boys,” which had the advantage of witnessing real change in its protagonists’ lives.
But it’s still .
HBO is giving the
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