Senegalese-French director Mati Diop creates lyrical, genre-defying films that blend the fantastical with the contemporary, as seen in her debut feature Atlantics. I have reviewed 3 of her films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
There is something quietly extraordinary about the project behind A Thousand Suns, and it starts with a piece of cinema history. Back in 1973, the Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty made Touki Bouki, a landmark of African cinema about two young lovers dreaming of escape to Paris. It is a
Rating: 2.0★
I went into Dahomey completely blind, and the subject matter alone was enough to get me genuinely excited. The repatriation of 26 royal artefacts from France back to Benin, some 130 years after they were looted during colonial conquest. That's a story with real weight behind it, the
Genre Drama
★★★ — Atlantics (2019)
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