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This weekend’s Golden Globes ceremony marks the beginning of the final stretch of the 2024 awards season, leading up to the main event, the Oscars on March 10. If you haven’t had...
This weekend’s Golden Globes ceremony marks the beginning of the final stretch of the 2024 awards season, leading up to the main event, the Oscars on March 10. If you haven’t had...
- 1/6/2024
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Senegal’s Oscar candidate is part ghost story, part romance, with even a dollop of social commentary and criticism. The film is anchored by the lovely 17-year-old Marne Bneta Sane as Ada in a breakthrough performance as a woman who is destined to marry Omar (Babacar Sylla), a rich individual who spends nine months in Italy […]
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- 12/6/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
After screening at sixteen film festivals throughout 2019, French writer/director Mati Diop’s alluring debut finally arrives on general release in UK cinemas and on Netflix this month. Atlantics is a pensive, beguiling and magical socio-fantasy that follows teen construction worker Soulieman Fall (Ibrahima Traore), who, after an altercation with his manager, sets off to Spain on a row boat with work friends. Meanwhile, Ada (Mame Bineta Sane), his unrequited love, fears for Soulieman’s safety and that he won’t return in time to prevent her arranged marriage to the wealthy but vacuous Omar (Babacar Sylla). A week later and with no sign of Soulieman, Ada’s wedding to Omar goes ahead, but when a fire mysteriously breaks out on their matrimonial bed, Ada believes Soulieman might still be alive.
Mati Diop’s debut feature captivates from the outset with arresting imagery and abrupt conflict which engrosses and then...
Mati Diop’s debut feature captivates from the outset with arresting imagery and abrupt conflict which engrosses and then...
- 11/29/2019
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Images of the North Atlantic—sunbathed, moonlit, digitally rendered in some shots but no less striking—punctuate Mati Diop’s hypnotic debut feature Atlantics (Atlantique). The waves surging the shores of Dakar, Senegal poetically encapsulate the duality that animates her soulful fable, where the ocean emerges as a central character, seductive and foreboding, a specter of past and contemporary traumas, buried and bound to resurface with the tide. Ten years ago, Diop’s original short of the same name referenced the infamous journey of the Méduse, the 19th century French naval frigate that departed from Rochefort and ran aground off the West African coast. Close to mind are kin events, the refugee crisis and—more so here than in its progenitor—memory of the Middle Passage: the voyage of no return, the moment of rupture that beget generations of two-spirited children. Perhaps no figure is more suited to convey this two-ness,...
- 11/3/2019
- MUBI
Somewhere along the stretch of Senegalese coastline where Mati Diop’s feature-length directorial debut Atlantics takes place, a futuristic tower stands tall and spectral above the ocean–a sinister crossbreed between a stalagmite and a lighthouse, its lights thrusting red and warm blobs into the night. It’s a fictional place in a story of magical, mysterious elements–a love story that crisscrosses between social commentaries and ghastly apparitions, addressing the global migrant crisis through a language of disquieting and stunning reveries.
A few hundred meters below the skyscraper’s summit, hordes of the Senegalese laborers who’ve helped to build it fight for three months of overdue salary. One of them is Suleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet under the blistering sun. But Atlantics is not about him, and just when Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner seems to embark on a tale of...
A few hundred meters below the skyscraper’s summit, hordes of the Senegalese laborers who’ve helped to build it fight for three months of overdue salary. One of them is Suleiman (Ibrahima Traoré), a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet under the blistering sun. But Atlantics is not about him, and just when Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner seems to embark on a tale of...
- 6/11/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The capricious ocean is a recurrent, mesmerizing image in Mati Diop’s feature debut “Atlantics,” but given its perfidious connotations for the people of Senegal, who’ve lost so many souls to its depths, the director ensures the rolling waves remain hypnotic rather than beautiful. It’s the right decision for this romantic and melancholy film, more apt than some of the flawed narrative choices that frustrate though don’t compromise the atmosphere of loss and female solidarity in the story of a young woman whose love has died at sea. Part social commentary, part ghost tale, “Atlantics” will get a major boost from its Cannes competition slot and could see strong international sales.
While better known as an actress, Diop’s been steadily making a mark for herself as a director with shorts and the poetic medium-length “A Thousand Suns,” most of which deal with the complex relationship Senegalese...
While better known as an actress, Diop’s been steadily making a mark for herself as a director with shorts and the poetic medium-length “A Thousand Suns,” most of which deal with the complex relationship Senegalese...
- 5/16/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
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