Congolese cinema is small in output but significant in ambition, often grappling with the aftermath of conflict and the resilience of communities in both the DRC and the Republic of Congo. Sunday in Brazzaville captures everyday life on the Congo River's western bank with quiet documentary warmth. See what Macca made of the films below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a certain kind of film that dares you to keep watching, and Glauber Rocha's The Lion Has Seven Heads is very much one of them. It's a baffling, swirling beast of a picture, and I mean that in the most genuinely ambivalent way
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching We, Students! where you genuinely feel the weight of ambition pressing down on three young men who deserve so much better than what the world is handing them. Georges, Moïse, and Ernest are economics students in Bangui, full of grand plans for their country,
Genre Documentary
★★★★½ — City of Joy (2016)
Genre Documentary
★★★ — Sunday in Brazzaville (2012)
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