Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, this exquisite, genre-melding film will also represent Senegal in the upcoming Oscar race.
There’s a haunting moment early on in “Atlantics,” an exquisite, shiveringly beautiful debut feature from the French Senegalese director Mati Diop. We are speeding along the sun-drenched coast of Dakar, Senegal, in the back of a truck carrying a group of men from a construction site where they have been working for more than three months without pay.
Souleiman isn’t the protagonist of “Atlantics,” but it’s significant that Diop introduces him first, establishing the story’s human stakes and the first of its many systemic cruelties. Within moments the perspective will shift to Souleiman’s 17-year-old girlfriend, Ada , whom we see kissing Souleiman on the beach and in the ruins of an abandoned building. She has no idea that these embraces will be their last, at least for a while.
We never see those men again — at least, not in their present state — and their abrupt departure sends their loved ones reeling. “Atlantics,” whichat this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will represent Senegal in the upcoming Academy Awards race for best international feature, grew out of Diop’s 2009 short film, “Atlantiques,” which drew from the real-life experiences of young African men setting out on the dangerous trip to Europe.
In its present, richly elaborated form, the movie also suggests a sly inversion of “The Odyssey,” albeit one in which the women, rather than waiting on the narrative sidelines, assume an active role in their own heroic epic. What begins as a realist snapshot of the global migrant crisis gradually expands into an aching story of love, loss and the return of the repressed.
In one scene Diop draws our attention to the enormous white marriage bed that will soon be Ada and Omar’s. It’s a stunning, ludicrous image of extravagance and oppression that Ada beholds with quiet scorn, even as her visiting girlfriends coo over it with mock envy. It’s hard to stifle a chuckle, or a cheer, when the bed suddenly goes up in flames, the major casualty of a house fire set by an unseen arsonist.
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