Saloum
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Why watch?
“Saloum demands close attention; it certainly earns it too. Keen eyes might notice how the film is billed as a “southern” in the opening credits. Sure enough, Saloum does not stop at simply reinterpreting the tropes of the western but wholly retools its influences with local flavours.”
Phuong Le,
The Guardian
Mercenary group Bangui's Hyenas are tasked with extracting a Mexican drug lord from Guinea-Bissau amid the 2003 coup d'état and taking him to Dakar. On route, a leak with the group's airplane forces them to land in remote Sine-Saloum, where they must reckon with suspicious residents, difficult environmental conditions and supernatural events before they are able to depart.
Saloum has been selected to play as part of Cinema Africa by our Programming Partner, Maona Arts.
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“The propulsive energy of the film is driven both by that injustice and by the scars it leaves on places and on people, and so the horror, the horror, of Saloum is both timeless and timely.”
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture
“Herbulot and Diop have made a movie that is bold and exciting, combining bits of reality with outsized myth, in a tale of crime, revenge, and literal monsters, set in a wonderland where it seems anything can happen.”
Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
“The incredibly fun supernatural crime drama Saloum is immediately one of the most entertaining movies of 2022.”
Matt Mahler, Movieweb