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★
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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