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Atlantics

Atlantique

2019

Mati Diop

Ibrahima Mbaye, Abdou Balde, Mame Bineta Sane, Aminata Kane ...

5.8

1,442

Drama. Fantasy. Romance Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleimane, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleimane and his co-workers disappear at sea. Soon after, they come back to haunt their old neighbourhood by taking possession of the girlfriends they left behind. Some of the workers have come claiming revenge and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Exquisitely shot (...) the film pulls together some exceedingly strong components (...) A striking work."	POS
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"An intense romance notable for the craft of the filmmaking and Diop’s original approach to complex issues of love, loss and the forces for change that can rise from the ashes of tragedy."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Diop's impressive debut is absorbing, otherworldly vision of an alienated seaside life in Dakar."	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"'Atlantics' works best as a romance film given how quickly viewers feel invested in the palpable emotional ties between Ada and Souleiman"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It creates] a complex mood of longing, desperation and anger (...) It’s a suspenseful, sensual, exciting movie, and therefore a deeply haunting one as well."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'Atlantics' may occasionally frustrate your desire for cohesion and clarity; it’s more effective at distilling ideas into images than at building and sustaining human drama from moment to moment."	NEU
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"A film that deftly entwines a new take on the refugee crises with a look at young female adulthood, and layers it with a dose of West African folklore."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[Diop] unites a wide array of ideas and genres with her intensely sensory artistry"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A film which is totally out of the ordinary, and this is bolstered by Claire Mathon’s remarkable work as director of photography (...) A very likeable portrait of a young woman"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I admired the way that Diop did not simply submit to the realist mode expected from this kind of material (...) Her film has a seductive mystery (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"An eerie, delirious narrative mood and a profoundly sympathetic central character just about compensate for blatantly slipshod storytelling (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Pure cinematic poetry (...) [Diop slips] in and out of modes with a magician’s confidence (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Sophie Monks Kaufman Empire	"[The] ending is muted. Yet so strikingly original is Diop's use of genre that this scarcely matters (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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