Cameroonian cinema has long operated at the margins of global distribution, but filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Bassek ba Kobhio brought it serious critical attention from the 1990s onward. Caller ID: Unknown (2023) is among the contemporary works finding new audiences. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
Ousmane Sembène spent his whole career pointing his camera at injustice, and Moolaadé turned out to be his last word. That alone gives it a particular weight. When a filmmaker of his stature, widely considered the father of African cinema, chooses this as the thing he leaves behind, you sit
Rating: 3.0★
If you've ever stumbled across Who Killed Captain Alex? and found yourself completely won over by the sheer, unbridled enthusiasm of Wakaliwood cinema, then Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 1996 Cameroonian/Zimbabwean oddity Aristotle's Plot is going to feel like a surprisingly polished cousin of that
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in Chocolat where you sense Claire Denis is doing something genuinely special, something quiet and loaded and precise. And then the film just... continues being quiet. And loaded. And precise. For another hour or so. I'd heard a lot about this one, and
Genre Drama
★½ — Caller ID: Unknown (2023)
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