First, I appreciate the filmmaker crafting an poetic narrative about love, culture, and it's honesty deception of Senegalese culture with some of the most gorgeous camerawork, color presentation, and musical soundtrack. The characters of Banel and Adama are explored pretty good that understand their actions, traditions, feelings, and the issues they are facing within their community and home that helped developed their arches and keep them engaged throughout.
With good performances, many atmospheres and themes are good and the magical realism, romance, and warm style choices are wonderful. It's narrative conveys a emotional development to it's character pretty well but I did wish the writing is able to be better because there are some aspects that were uneven and felt too thin. Including some cultural moments and traditions that I personally thought could have been explored a bit more.
But I applaud director Ramata-Toulaye Sy being able to craft something unique and I am interested to see what else she offers in the future.