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| 01 Distribution | Release Date: February 23, 2024 |
Starring:
Affif Ben Badra, Bamar Kane, Hichem Yacoubi, Isaka Sawadogo, Joseph Beddelem, Mariam Kaba, Oumar Diaw, Princess Erika, Seydou Sarr, Taha Benaim
Summary:
Two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.
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Feb 23, 2024
You can get the facts about these migrants anywhere, but Garrone knows the tool of cinema is more effective. By presenting these adolescents in all their fragility and strength, he comes as close as is possible to getting us to feel how they felt. Io Capitano is as unflinching as it is robust with empathy.
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Mr. Garrone seems so desperate to create a powerful humanist plea that he has neglected to provide his movie with the detail and artistry that would give it force, and he conspicuously concludes his story just before it would have started to become more contentious—and more interesting.
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