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Watani: A World Without Evil

Watani: A World Without Evil (Watani, un monde sans mal)

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  • France,
  • Mauritania
  • 1998
  • · 78m

Director Med Hondo
Cast Patrick Poivey, Coumba Awa Tall, Mboup Massyla, Anne Jolivet, James Campbell, Sabine Lods
Genre Drama

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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Variety by Lisa Nesselson

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.