Atlantics director Mati Diop on creating a complex portrait of Senegalese youth

[@ProjectDystopia]

I loved the film, it's beautiful......

[@africanhistory]

film is crap. What is special about it? 1000s of film made like this in Africa every year--why this one?

[@ProjectDystopia]

@@africanhistory Why are expressing such hate? I can you tell you have issues more than this film. I loved the film, bravo to director Mati Diop and the talented young actors.

[@greeko25]

loved the film ! spellbinding!

[@dianasballroom7871]

Important subjects implemented in a very creative way, wow

[@kevinichtdasein]

Je t'aime Mati Diop!!!

[@africanhistory]

The right kind of "Black" for the white world to embrace diversity. Pretty by the terms they can accept. Now we cannot say there are no "black" women from Africa. We get this woman representing African women directors. Amazing. Had she been a real "African: I promise you we would not know about her.

[@mamecheikhmbaye8491]

i'm senegalese and here we consider here as a senegalese ! are you racist ? she's a real african !

[@tammy5466]

Of course she is a real African but she's not black unfortunately

[@MaxF28]

She's embraced because of the quality of her filmmaking not her looks and she's mainly noted as a French or French-Senegalese director, not "representing African women directors".

[@Karl4242]

I totally understand where you are coming from. She is not a real African, she was born in France, coming from a Senegalese family which is not the same. The fact we say a French/Senegalese film tells you a story as to who comes first = France. Why not say Senegalese/French film. The fact that Senegal was a colony of France until 1960 also tells a story. I fear the same thing: Had this been a film 100% from Senegal, I don´t feel it would have gotten the notoriety it deserve.

[@Karl4242]

@@mamecheikhmbaye8491 She, Mati Diop, is not. She was born in Paris, France June 22nd, 1982.

[@Karl4242]

I like the film; I didn´t love it. There are shots that are endlessly long without purpose. I love slow films but they need to have "tempo", rythm-movement. One of the inicial shots where he sits in the back of a truck last like 160 seconds = an eternity in film making.

[@ragingcanadian8987]

I do agree, it was a bit too long for my liking, but I think it does serve a purpose. Throughout the film we are presented with one specific noise/shot, the sea. Whenever (from what I can remember from) we have one of these scenes/noises, it's when a character is presented with an opportunity or possible consequence. This scene basically foreshadows how Souleiman wants out but also risks his current life as we learn about the shipwreck the boys end up in later in the film. At first watch it is painstakingly long to watch but the inclusion of it was great, just wished it was a bit shorter💀

[@kevinichtdasein]

Je t'aime Mati Diop!!!