Netflix’s 2023 action-thriller series, Blood Coast, isn’t just your average cop show about chasing criminals and putting them behind bars. Rather, it chronicles a group of meticulous and unorthodox cops who know that playing by the book won’t get you anywhere, and in order to catch a criminal, you’ve got to think like one. Lyès Benamar (Tewfik Jallab) and his team didn’t really have a clean image in the department, mainly due to his unconventional methods of busting criminals and drug dealers.
Lyès was the sort of cop who hardly flinched before torturing criminals to get the information he needed. Thanks to his methods, Lyès and his team had always attracted criticism from his superior, Commissaire Fabiani (Florence Thomassin), who had lost count of exactly how many times she’d told Lyès to play by the book and not spark unnecessary fuss. Thus, Fabiani had Lyès...
Lyès was the sort of cop who hardly flinched before torturing criminals to get the information he needed. Thanks to his methods, Lyès and his team had always attracted criticism from his superior, Commissaire Fabiani (Florence Thomassin), who had lost count of exactly how many times she’d told Lyès to play by the book and not spark unnecessary fuss. Thus, Fabiani had Lyès...
- 12/6/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
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
Attack The Block (15)
(Joe Cornish, 2011, UK) John Boyega, Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker. 88 mins
More Critters than Cloverfield, this alien-invasion movie is modest in scale and ambition but makes up for it in local flavour. The setting is south London – Brit cinema's default "ghetto" location, bruv – where sharp-toothed ETs come to regret messing with the hoodies, who team up with their recent victim and the upstairs drug dealer to defend their manor. It's no Shaun Of The Dead, but it's up-to-date and fitfully entertaining, and there's at least some social grit beneath the down-with-the-kids comedy.
A Screaming Man (PG)
(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010, Cha/Fra/Bel) Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abssolo M'Bo. 91 mins
Saying a great deal with few resources, this skillful Chadian drama finds weighty moral, global and generational concerns in the story of a swimming pool attendant and his son.
Love Like Poison (15)
(Katell Quillévéré, 2010, Fra) Clara Augarde, Lio, Stefano Cassetti.
(Joe Cornish, 2011, UK) John Boyega, Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker. 88 mins
More Critters than Cloverfield, this alien-invasion movie is modest in scale and ambition but makes up for it in local flavour. The setting is south London – Brit cinema's default "ghetto" location, bruv – where sharp-toothed ETs come to regret messing with the hoodies, who team up with their recent victim and the upstairs drug dealer to defend their manor. It's no Shaun Of The Dead, but it's up-to-date and fitfully entertaining, and there's at least some social grit beneath the down-with-the-kids comedy.
A Screaming Man (PG)
(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010, Cha/Fra/Bel) Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abssolo M'Bo. 91 mins
Saying a great deal with few resources, this skillful Chadian drama finds weighty moral, global and generational concerns in the story of a swimming pool attendant and his son.
Love Like Poison (15)
(Katell Quillévéré, 2010, Fra) Clara Augarde, Lio, Stefano Cassetti.
- 5/13/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
"African cinema is generally woefully overlooked by the West, and the filmmaking being done in Republic of Chad has been particularly invisible," begins Farihah Zaman in Reverse Shot. "The oversight is not entirely unreasonable; decades of civil war have left the local film industry all but nonexistent — for thirty years there was not even a single movie theater in the entire country. That changed in 2010 when Mahamet-Saleh Haroun won the Cannes Jury Prize for A Screaming Man. His film, the first from his country to screen in competition at the prestigious French festival, now has another distinction, having convinced a government in the midst of war the importance of investing a million dollars in building a movie theater specifically so that it could be shown."
In this "ingenious and moving take on Fw Murnau's classic The Last Laugh," writes the New Yorker's Richard Brody, "Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a former swimming...
In this "ingenious and moving take on Fw Murnau's classic The Last Laugh," writes the New Yorker's Richard Brody, "Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a former swimming...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
(A Screaming Man was picked up for distribution by Film Movement. It opens theatrically at the Film Forum on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Visit the film’s official page at the Film Movement website to learn more. )
For the first half of Mahamet-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man, you might think Haroun’s sole mission is to deliver one of those poignant little personal fables that feel warmly contained within their own worlds. But something happens along the way. The news reports of civil unrest that filter through the background of so many early scenes maneuver their way into the forefront, to the point where the film’s scope widens dramatically. But here’s the trick, and it is what most likely resulted in its winning of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival: Even as that external scope widens, A Screaming Man retains its small, personal, internal purpose. Haroun...
For the first half of Mahamet-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man, you might think Haroun’s sole mission is to deliver one of those poignant little personal fables that feel warmly contained within their own worlds. But something happens along the way. The news reports of civil unrest that filter through the background of so many early scenes maneuver their way into the forefront, to the point where the film’s scope widens dramatically. But here’s the trick, and it is what most likely resulted in its winning of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival: Even as that external scope widens, A Screaming Man retains its small, personal, internal purpose. Haroun...
- 4/14/2011
- by Michael Tully
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed/Written by: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emil Abossolo M’Bo, Hadjé Fatimé N’Goua, Marius Yelolo and Djénéba Koné
Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun draws on his own survival of the perpetual civil war in his native Chad for this Cannes Jury Prize winner. In it, rebel activity flows and ebbs like the tide. Meanwhile, everyday life goes on.
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam’s closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms.
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed/Written by: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emil Abossolo M’Bo, Hadjé Fatimé N’Goua, Marius Yelolo and Djénéba Koné
Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun draws on his own survival of the perpetual civil war in his native Chad for this Cannes Jury Prize winner. In it, rebel activity flows and ebbs like the tide. Meanwhile, everyday life goes on.
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam’s closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms.
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed/Written by: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emil Abossolo M’Bo, Hadjé Fatimé N’Goua, Marius Yelolo and Djénéba Koné
Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun draws on his own survival of the perpetual civil war in his native Chad for this Cannes Jury Prize winner. In it, rebel activity flows and ebbs like the tide. Meanwhile, everyday life goes on.
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam’s closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms.
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed/Written by: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emil Abossolo M’Bo, Hadjé Fatimé N’Goua, Marius Yelolo and Djénéba Koné
Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun draws on his own survival of the perpetual civil war in his native Chad for this Cannes Jury Prize winner. In it, rebel activity flows and ebbs like the tide. Meanwhile, everyday life goes on.
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam’s closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms.
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The winner of a Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, foreign language drama A Screaming Man will be released on DVD on Aug. 2 from independent film supplier Film Movement.
Youssouf Djaoro thinks it over in A Screaming Man.
Produced in writer/director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s native country of Chad, A Screaming Man is the first movie from sub-Saharan Africa to be chosen for the festival’s top honors in 13 years.
The film revolves around Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a former swimming champion in his 60s who is now a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel is taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel (Dioucounda Koma), leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile, the country is in the throes of a civil war, with rebel forces attacking the government and the authorities demanding that the people contribute...
Youssouf Djaoro thinks it over in A Screaming Man.
Produced in writer/director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s native country of Chad, A Screaming Man is the first movie from sub-Saharan Africa to be chosen for the festival’s top honors in 13 years.
The film revolves around Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a former swimming champion in his 60s who is now a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel is taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel (Dioucounda Koma), leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile, the country is in the throes of a civil war, with rebel forces attacking the government and the authorities demanding that the people contribute...
- 4/7/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Written by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2010, France, Belgium, Chad
A certain school of cinema teaches that holding shots long enough will guarantee critical success and bountiful festival laurels for the poster campaign. Granted, the long take is one of the most electrifying techniques a filmmaker can employ, and this still-thriving stallion is being flogged by those seeking to challenge audiences. Unfortunately for them, they fail to realize that a long take worth its weight in festival gold is anything but a challenge to sit through. Apitchatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul must know this for he crafts shots of mesmerising beauty, none of which are nearly long enough for one to begin speculating on their actual purpose. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, whose A Screaming Man yielded to Joe’s Palme d’Or-winner only to clinch the Jury Prize at Cannes, is some way behind, which...
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Written by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
2010, France, Belgium, Chad
A certain school of cinema teaches that holding shots long enough will guarantee critical success and bountiful festival laurels for the poster campaign. Granted, the long take is one of the most electrifying techniques a filmmaker can employ, and this still-thriving stallion is being flogged by those seeking to challenge audiences. Unfortunately for them, they fail to realize that a long take worth its weight in festival gold is anything but a challenge to sit through. Apitchatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul must know this for he crafts shots of mesmerising beauty, none of which are nearly long enough for one to begin speculating on their actual purpose. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, whose A Screaming Man yielded to Joe’s Palme d’Or-winner only to clinch the Jury Prize at Cannes, is some way behind, which...
- 4/7/2011
- by Tope
- SoundOnSight
Writer-director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun draws on his own survival of the perpetual civil war in his native Chad for this Cannes Jury Prize winner. In it, rebel activity flows and ebbs like the tide. Meanwhile, everyday life goes on.
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam's closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms. He is humiliated by the demotion and resents that his son, who lacks the attention to detail Adam feels is necessary, has taken over not only his position at the pool but,...
For former swimming champion Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), everyday life is managing the pool at an upscale hotel with his 20-year-old son Abdel (Diouc Koma). When the resort is privatized, the new Chinese owners streamline the operation by laying off some of Adam's closest friends and downsizing the pool staff.
Adam is reassigned to the front gate and a sweaty uniform whose sleeves and pant legs are too short for his long, once-athletic limbs. Cars honk at him incessantly to manually raise the gate arms. He is humiliated by the demotion and resents that his son, who lacks the attention to detail Adam feels is necessary, has taken over not only his position at the pool but,...
- 11/30/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Craig here, continuing a look at films showing at the 54th BFI London Film Festival.
I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end list for that year), and he’s triumphed again with his fourth feature, A Screaming Man/Un homme qui crie. Made in the same refined and frank vein as Daratt, this new film follows Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a pool cleaner and former swimming champion who works at an exclusive N'Djamena hotel with the assistance of his son, Abdel (Diouc Koma). After a job reshuffle Adam loses his job to Abdel; he sinks into depression fuelled by anger and humiliation, and so takes unexpected action. His situation worsens, just as civil war engulfs the country and rebel armies infiltrate the area.
Much of the film’s drama is underplayed. Haroun’s camera focuses on Adam in a curious,...
I much admired Chad filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt/Dry Season from 2007 (it took the #4 spot in my year-end list for that year), and he’s triumphed again with his fourth feature, A Screaming Man/Un homme qui crie. Made in the same refined and frank vein as Daratt, this new film follows Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a pool cleaner and former swimming champion who works at an exclusive N'Djamena hotel with the assistance of his son, Abdel (Diouc Koma). After a job reshuffle Adam loses his job to Abdel; he sinks into depression fuelled by anger and humiliation, and so takes unexpected action. His situation worsens, just as civil war engulfs the country and rebel armies infiltrate the area.
Much of the film’s drama is underplayed. Haroun’s camera focuses on Adam in a curious,...
- 10/20/2010
- by Craig Bloomfield
- FilmExperience
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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