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Rolling Stone Steeped in Ivory Coast’s Myth and Ritual, ‘Night of the Kings’ Is No Ordinary Prison Drama
Writer-director Philippe Lacôte’s movie combines fact and fabulism, displaying the power of the West African griot
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“Tell me a story.” This is the command that Roman (Bakary Koné), a new arrival at La Maca penitentiary a forest-borne fortress just outside of the Ivory Coast’s capital, Abidjan is given almost as soon as he arrives. It’s quite a welcome. Dismissed by the prison’s guards for the gang affiliations that landed him here, Roman is thrown into the “jungle,” as the guards call it. And as soon as he arrives, everything else stops. Another inmate, the feminine Sexy (Gbazi Yves Landry), has just been knocked to the ground, portending violence that one needn’t have to see to be able to imagine. But then comes Roman not the name he was born with, but rather the one he’s been given. Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu), the Dangôro of t
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Philippe Lacôte honors Ivory Coast s legacy of storytelling with Night of the Kings Carlos Aguilar © (Neon) Koné Bakary, center, and Anzian Marcel in Night of the Kings. (Neon)
Ivorian writer-director Philippe Lacôte wasn’t born into a family of griots the ancestral West African chroniclers and fabulists foundational to the cultural memory of the region. Only those who are part of a centuries-old lineage can hold the distinguished position. Yet, through his films, vivid impressions that weave the past and present of Ivory Coast, Lacôte has already risen as a sort of cinematic griot, a modern keeper of his people’s history.
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