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France, Mauritania · 1998
1h 18m
Director Med Hondo
Starring Patrick Poivey, Coumba Awa Tall, Mboup Massyla, Anne Jolivet
Genre Drama
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Two men of different backgrounds lose their jobs on the same day in Paris. When the white banker can’t find a new job, he falls in with a racist crowd and joins in their racist attacks. Rendered homeless, the African man, a street-sweeper is eventually forced to take refuge in a church.
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Rough-hewn, sincere and completely unpretentious, "Watani: A World Without Evil" uses blunt, efficient strokes to paint parallel portraits of two men with families --- one black, one white --- who lose their jobs on the same day in Paris. Using very little dialogue and blanketing the proceedings with music from rap to blues, pic, blown up from digital video, is extremely uneven but packs a wallop when the elements coalesce.