FELICITÉ (Alain Gomis 2017)
The story of a single mother who's a cafe singer in Kinshasha, Congo (the filmmaker is Senegalese but born in Paris), with hard times when her 14-year-old is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. The structure is kind of rough especially toward the second half,. but Gomis has a sense of cinematic poetry and his use of vernacular Congllese and locally-made classical lifts things to a higher level.
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