Cape Verdean cinema is small in output but deeply tied to the islands' culture of saudade, migration and the sea. Cape Verde My Love offers a window into that world, blending documentary feeling with personal storytelling. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 2.5★
Cape Verde in the mid-1960s was a place caught between worlds. Still a Portuguese colonial territory (independence would not come until 1975), the archipelago was watching the old certainties crack under pressure from economic and social forces that no amount of tradition could hold back. The volcanic island of
Genre Drama
★★½ — Cape Verde My Love (2007)
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