Omen

Name: Omen
Genre: Drama
Released: April 12, 2024
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Bongeziwe Mabandla, Chimène Barthez, Denis Mpunga, Eliane Umuhire, Guetty Lembe

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Utopia | Release Date: April 12, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Bongeziwe Mabandla, Chimène Barthez, Denis Mpunga, Eliane Umuhire, Guetty Lembe, Linda Ikwa, Lucie Debay, Marc Zinga, Marcel Otete Kabeya, Yves-Marina Gnahoua

Summary: After spending years in Belgium, Koffi (Marc Zinga), a young Congolese man, returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront his family and homeland culture. Secrecy and sorcery erupt when a nosebleed is mistaken for a curse, and Koffi is shunned from his family.

Director: Baloji

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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IndieWire Arjun Sajip

Apr 12, 2024

The director’s gift for unpacking the way notions of witchcraft can function as fig leaves for trauma, combined with his obvious eye for costumes, lighting, and framing, make for a visually striking, deeply compassionate, and memorable debut. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Apr 12, 2024

Makes up for any narrative patchiness with a bevy of unforgettable images and an attendant sense of ancient beliefs and rituals that divide as much as they unite. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peyton Robinson

Apr 26, 2024

Omen excellently captures the feelings of both cultural and generational alienation. In script and performance, there is never a moment of certainty. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Apr 12, 2024

Baloji has constructed four fascinating characters, played persuasively by these performers, but trying to figure out where their arcs overlap, even faintly, too often distracts from the beauty before us. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Apr 12, 2024

At a fleet 91 minutes, Omen could stand a little more character-building. But the larger atmospheric payoff lingers; the film first gets under the skin, then sits in the skeleton like a trapped, restive spirit. Read full review

William Repass

Apr 12, 2024

The patchwork structure of Omen is suited to the complexity a setting where characters switch between French, Swahili, and English depending on who they want to keep in the dark. Yet it’s difficult to shake that there are too many threads for a film of this length to do them justice. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Apr 11, 2024

The film’s frenetic world-building eventually becomes numbing, in part because the uneven human dramas — each one offers a vague message about marginalization — lose momentum in all the commotion. Read full review

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