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Oh, Sun

Oh, Sun (Soleil O)

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  • France,
  • Mauritania
  • 1973
  • · 103m

Director Med Hondo
Cast Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise Mbia, Gabriel Glissant, Akonio Dolo, Greg Germain
Genre Drama

A Black immigrant goes to Paris in search of his ancestors. He and other immigrants desperately seek work and shelter, but are faced with rejection and humiliation, until the call for uprising. The title derives from a West Indian song about the pain of Black people from Benin who were enslaved in the Caribbean.

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What are critics saying?

100

The New Yorker by Richard Brody

Hondo's passionate, wide-ranging voice-over commentary, addressing the hero in the second person, blends confession and observation, aspiration and despair, societal and personal conflicts.

100

Wall Street Journal by David Mermelstein

A combination of pure documentary and improvisation, the film lacks a conventional plot but offers instead many gripping scenes.

90

Buttered Popcorn by Carson Timar

Nearly every piece of the film truly feels inspired and where sure there is the occasional scene that feels a bit too on the nose, that is far from enough to truly hurt this powerful piece of cinema.