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★
Jean-Pierre Bekolo arrived at Aristotle's Plot as one of the more provocative voices to emerge from Francophone African cinema in the early 1990s. His debut feature, Quartier Mozart (1992), had already marked him out as a filmmaker more interested in subverting genre conventions than playing it safe,
Rating: 3.0★
Claire Denis made Chocolat as her debut feature in 1988, drawing directly on her own experience of growing up in French colonial West Africa. The timing matters: by the late 1980s, the postcolonial reckoning in French cinema was gathering pace, and Denis arrived not as an outside observer but as
Genre Drama
★½ — Caller ID: Unknown (2023)
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