Atlantics

Name: Atlantics
Genre: Drama
Released: November 15, 2019
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Abdou Balde, Aminata Kane, Babacar Sylla, Diankou Sembene, Ibrahima Mbaye

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Universal acclaim based on 30 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Ratings

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Netflix | Release Date: November 15, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Abdou Balde, Aminata Kane, Babacar Sylla, Diankou Sembene, Ibrahima Mbaye, Mame Bineta Sane, Mbow, Nicole Sougou, Traore

Movie Facts:

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Summary: In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Suleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.

Director: Mati Diop

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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K. Austin Collins

Jan 3, 2020

The mysteries of Atlantics, and there are plenty, are rooted in the question of what the lives of those men were worth—and of what, just as urgently, the life of a young woman like Ada might be worth, accordingly. But Diop’s approach to that question is elliptical, borne of a plot that mixes genres, religious superstitions, and the modernity of the cell phone age, into something wily and unpredictable. Read full review

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Christopher Gray

Sep 5, 2019

As Mati Diop mourns Senegal’s lost men, she honors their grief and affords them tremendous power all at once. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Nov 22, 2019

A magic realist fantasy, a ghost story, a love story and political allegory, Atlantics packs a deceptive amount of complexity in a gauzy, slender film. Read full review

The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Jul 11, 2019

Diop speaks her own language–and Atlantics’ is one of seductive, confounding beauty. This is a story that treats its unspeakable tragedy as such: a world-shattering crisis told not through conventional storytelling, but conjured up from the realm of dreams, nightmares, and visions. A reverie as perturbing and hypnotic as the sea that washes it ashore. Read full review

Empire Sophie Monks Kaufman

Nov 26, 2019

In this haunting social lament Mati Diop pulls off shifts from social realism to genre mysticism with a poise as supernatural as the force that overtakes her young lovers. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 16, 2019

A lot of ideas about class, post-imperialism and spiritual values peek up out of the surface of the text, but they're not developed with much rigor compared to what Diop conjured with more intensity and less time in A Thousand Suns. All the same, this is a striking work. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

May 16, 2019

The result offers mixed levels of satisfaction, most successful in capturing the protagonist’s leap into adulthood and her increasing reliance on the forthright, independent-minded women around her. Read full review

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stevesurkov

Dec 1, 2019

One of the best films of this year. I like the idea of ocean as a living creature, who can take people's souls forever, but the trip of these souls doesn't stop. They can return to loved ones, but only through other people's bodies. This mystery makes me cold, I like it so much. The AtlanticOne of the best films of this year. I like the idea of ocean as a living creature, who can take people's souls forever, but the trip of these souls doesn't stop. They can return to loved ones, but only through other people's bodies. This mystery makes me cold, I like it so much. The Atlantic Ocean is very mysterious and no other ocean has as many secrets as this one, such as Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis... It really scares me, especially after watching the "Atlantique". Cool actors, for example Mame Bineta Sane. Also, I'd like to express special gratitude to Mati Diop and director of photography, as well as to set designers and composer Fatima Al Qadiri... her extraterrestrial soundtrack is one of the greatest of all time.… Expand

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Richard552

Aug 11, 2022

This mystery makes me cold, I like it so much. $1 to buy a Netflix account, Google search: vtvshare

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alejandro970

Feb 6, 2021

Una atípica historia de fantasmas en el que se combinan el folklor africano, y elementos sociales de aquel continente como la explotación laboral y el matrimonio forzado. Es una de esas películas que se ha de masticar despacio para definirla mejor y encontrarle el sabor. Pero el esfuerzoUna atípica historia de fantasmas en el que se combinan el folklor africano, y elementos sociales de aquel continente como la explotación laboral y el matrimonio forzado. Es una de esas películas que se ha de masticar despacio para definirla mejor y encontrarle el sabor. Pero el esfuerzo vale la pena.… Expand

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SaganBaby

Jan 10, 2020

A sneaky, subversive ghost story with elegance and grace. “Atlantics” achieves a balance of longing and creepiness that is wholly unexpected, transforming a typical teenage love story into something more sinister and weary. American horror could learn a lot from the film’s light-touch.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

pabell77

Apr 4, 2022

This is an extraordinarily slow-moving film, with very attractive actors, which is largely nonsensical (keyed on a romance for which there is no apparent foundation) and the plot of which is very hard to comprehend.

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bkengland

Dec 27, 2019

This is a zombie movie. If you like that kind of thing, fine, but you should know going into it this is what you're getting. I'm floored why the critic reviews are as high as they are. Ebert would have given it a thumbs up, Siskel a thumbs down.

0 of 4 users found this helpful04

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