Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2016. Go to TIFF 2016 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
WULU (France/Senegal 2016) ***
Directed by Daouda Coulibaly
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Dembele Habib, Ndiaye Ismaël
Review by Gilbert Seah
Malian director Daouda Coulibaly’s debut is a no-nonsense tense crime drama/political thriller that traces the rise and fall of a low-level transit worker turned drug trafficker.
When the film opens, the audience sees Ladji (Ibrahim Koma) advising his apprentice on how to load a bus with customers – to maximize fare. The ambitious Ladji forces himse on his boss who smuggles drugs. Ladji succeeds but more money means more responsibilities and more debt.
Director Coulibaly ties in the political unrest ion the story as well as Ladji’s rites-of-passage. The trial of the film WULU is the dog’s rite, one part…
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