Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Writer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo, Hadje Fatime N’Goua, Marius Yelolo Upon reflection, water is the most important element in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man. Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a 60-year old former swimming champion, and his son Abdel (Diouc Koma) work as pool attendants at a N’Djamena hotel. Haroun’s film [...]...
- 8/2/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
A Screaming Man is a quote from the poetry collection Return to My Native Land by Aime Cesaire, but it’s also a title of an upcoming French war drama film directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, and movie scheduled to compete for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.
The whole story is set during turbulent times in Chad, so no wonder they already describe it as “a kind of history handed down from father to son… and from generation to generation”…
Here’s A Screaming Man synopsis: “Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated.
The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government.
The whole story is set during turbulent times in Chad, so no wonder they already describe it as “a kind of history handed down from father to son… and from generation to generation”…
Here’s A Screaming Man synopsis: “Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated.
The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government.
- 5/20/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
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