By turns horrific and hilarious, touching and repulsive, it showcases West Africa as an emerging force in contemporary cinema.
Saloum
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Senegal · 2021
1h 24m
Director Jean Luc Herbulot
Starring Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Felmont Sallah, Mentor Ba
Genre Action, Fantasy, Horror
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Shot down after fleeing a coup and extracting a drug lord from Guinea-Bissau, a group of mercenaries must lie low at a remote holiday camp, stash their stolen haul, and repair their plane to escape back to Dakar, Senegal before it is too late.
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Saloum is tense and, when it kicks into high gear, scary as hell.
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
One mystery is solved so another can begin without missing a beat as revenge takes on new meaning in the aftermath of its completion.
Revenge is a dish served with considerable style and imagination in Saloum, a fast and furious crime-horror-thriller that twists and turns its way around the mangroves, islets and inlets of Senegal’s Sine-Saloum coastal region.
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