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Angola · 2020
1h 12m
Director Fradique
Starring José Kiteculo, Filomena Manuel, David Caracol, Tito Spyck
Genre Drama
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When the air-conditioners around Luanda start to fail and fall in puzzling ways, a security guard is ordered by his boss to get him an air conditioner by the end of the day. This sends the guard off on a sweltering mission to get an AC for his boss, employing the help of a housemaid.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
A highly accomplished and promising first full-length fictional outing for U.S.-trained mono-monikered multi-hyphenate “Fradique” (a.k.a. Mario Bastos), this magical realist tale set and shot in bustling capital Luanda is buoyed by a quite outstanding original jazz-inflected soundtrack by Aline Frazao, whose renown already stretches beyond her continent’s shores.
The tech may be on the blink, but this striking debut makes humanity seem like a beautiful malfunction.
Ery Claver, who co-wrote the screenplay with the director, provides arresting Steadicam as well as popping colours as cinematographer. In keeping with the film’s novel premise, this is like nothing you’ve seen anywhere else. Aline Frazão’s crashing, jazzy score adds a start to the ghosts in the machine.