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A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)
Release Date
13 May 2011
TBA
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Certificate:
NR
Genre:
Drama
Set in Chad, focuses on a country in the grip of civil war with armed rebels threatening to seize power. In response, the government appeals to the population for a "war effort" demanding money or a child of fighting age. Adam is thus harassed by his local chief to make his contribution--but he has no money, he only has his son.
Cast:
Writers:
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Producers:
Directors:
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
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Chad, the recent past, and former swimming champ Adam (Djaoro) works as pool attendant at a swanky tourist hotel, his son, Abdel (Koma), employed as his assistant. With civil war raging, Adam is pushed by a local chief to support the regime just as new hotel management demote him to gatekeeper and promote his son to pool attendant. And that's when Adam decides to contribute to the struggle by volunteering his son for the army...
THE VERDICT: Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes last year, shades of Ozu abound in this quietly devastating film that keeps its distance from the politics involved in Chad's many civil wars over the last three decades (we are never told which one, exactly, is the backdrop here), and also keeps its distance, literally, from our main protagonist, A Screaming Man containing very few close-ups. As much Aesop's fable as arthouse 101, A Screaming Man is a dark and delicious slow burner.
Review by Paul Byrne
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