French actor-director Mati Diop's Cannes Grand Prize-winning narrative feature debut is a supernatural romantic drama set in coastal Dakar.
"Along the...
French actor-director Mati Diop's Cannes Grand Prize-winning narrative feature debut is a supernatural romantic drama set in coastal Dakar.
"Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned." (Cannes Film Festival)
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"Constantly intriguing, Atlantics successfully blends its disparate elements of love story, ghost story and female empowerment into a distinctive, involving drama."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Mati Diop, who has worked both sides of the camera as an actor (35 Shots of Rum, Simon Killer) and a writer-director of acclaimed shorts, kicks her craft up a notch with the lyrical, richly evocative ghost story Atlantics (Atlantiques), her first feature-length project, and the first film directed by a black woman to compete in Cannes' main competition."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Diop's first feature-set in her father's home town of Dakar, Senegal-unites a wide array of ideas and genres with her intensely sensory artistry."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"Dreamy yet sensual, fantastical yet rooted in uncomfortable facts, Diop's beguiling film may even have reinvented a genre."
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BBC
BBC"Suffice to say that, shortly after a mysterious fire breaks out in Ada's ridiculously lavish marriage bed, the story becomes both a detective thriller and a ghost story rooted in elements of local folklore, and pulled off with a light, shivery touch."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"This film's power to surprise is one of its greatest pleasures, while also the source of its frustrations: don't come here looking for easy answers."
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Time Out
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Award winner- Winner of Grand Prize of the Jury (Diop), 2019 Cannes Film Festival
- Runtime
- 104
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- Senegal, France, Belgium
