A Great African Director Makes a Triumphant Return
Maria Simulescu
Photo: Pili Films Tinged with magic but shot in a realistic, albeit still gorgeous , style, Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars is a movie as bewitching as its title. Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, it’s a coming-of-age tale that subtly transforms into something that feels like myth. Watching it, I was reminded of some of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films, but I was also reminded of Haroun’s own striking body of work. The director is not particularly well
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