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Of the three Ivory Coast submissions for the foreign language film Oscar over the years, two have been by the writer-director Philippe Lacôte: 2014âs
Run, which was widely regarded as heralding an Ivorian film-making renaissance, and
Night of the Kings (2020), one of 15 films shortlisted for the renamed best international feature award. A shapeshifting tale of incarceration and emancipation, it may have missed out on an Oscar nomination, yet its vivid, genre-fluid investigation of the alchemical art of storytelling definitely hits the mark.
In a remote clearing on the edge of Abidjanâs Banco forest stands the notorious Maison dâarrêt et de correction dâAbdijan â La Maca â an institution described by one of its keepers as âthe only prison in the world run by an inmateâ. A commanding aerial shot highlights the prisonâs isolation, a brutal structure hidden by dense vegetation. Captions introduce us to â�
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KATE BECKINSALE steps up to see if she can claim the Theron crown in this latest female-fronted post-John Wick bisexually inflected actioner.
The Underworld star gets her own riff on cult-fave Crank, a rage-powered ball of hyper-violent Wickian chaos kept at bay only by periodic electric shocks. But she tosses the power switch aside when her hunky love interest is killed under dodgy circumstances and the trail to his killer leads all the way through to. The Underworld.
Beckinsale delivers a magnetic performance, effortlessly boosting an otherwise very nuts’n’bolts by-the-numbers female-led shoot ‘em up, not especially indistinguishable from Atomic Blonde, Anna, Lucy or Peppermint.
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La nuit des rois, de Philippe Lacôte, nous transporte au cœur de la Maca, célèbre prison d’Abidjan
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Interview » La Maca est une célèbre prison d’Abidjan, en Côte d’Ivoire, dirigée par un vieux détenu malade surnommé «Barbe Noire». Pour consolider son pouvoir vacillant, le caïd choisit un jeune pickpocket et le nomme «Roman». Ce rituel du «Roman», vieille tradition carcérale, oblige le jeune homme à raconter une histoire durant toute une nuit de lune rouge, sans quoi il sera mis à mort. «Roman» se lance alors corps et âme dans le récit quasi mythologique de la vie de Zama King, un bandit légendaire.
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As the child of a Nigerian immigrant, my allergy to idleness was definitely nurture not nature. But you know the old proverb about all work turning Jack into a dull boy, and I’ve certainly grown to appreciate relaxation’s merits. In today’s Weekender, we make the case for laziness, offering ways to make peace with your inner couch potato, from a classical album and some shows worth starting to tech that will make your dry cleaning a breeze. Call us lazy, say we’re wasting our time, just don’t call us while we’re off the clock. Here are some picks for a weekend without worries.
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Song Kang-ho wonders whether you re the serial killer he s searching for in Memories of Murder.
I couldn’t get to the few movies that are being released in theaters this week, so I thought I’d run another of my yearly features delayed to the spring by [
gestures at everything]. I write this article about movies that I didn’t have a chance to review or write up in Film Shorts, and there were more of those this year. This piece is therefore longer than usual. Hope you’re okay with that.
The Danish title for this film translates as simply “Drunk,” which would have been a better name for this comedy about a group of high-school teachers who make a group bet to see which of them can drink the most alcohol during the day and still teach class. Mads Mikkelsen plays the history teacher who actually improves his job performance when he’s hammered, because he (like his colleagues) sucks at his job to begin with. The Oscar-nominated film comme