Review of Atlantics

Atlantics (2019)
1/10
Affirmative Action in Film
21 December 2019
Think of all the boxes you need to tick to look progressive. Africa, Black (but not real Black) , female, social justice and once you find a candidate give them praise. You could watch 1000 African films by random people and found something better to throw praise at. Then why this film. It is such a poor job I do not even know what people were watching. It fails to even deserve criticism. The music and audio clash, the DP work looks like a Canon 70D handheld. But guess what the director is borderline black and happens to be a French woman from French society. I think this thing of agendas is destructive because how many Africans make proper films yet we will never know them because of politics. Maybe they too dark skinned, maybe the themes are too strong. There is nothing in this film that warrants it even being watched. And all the good themes in it do not convert to good cinema. The story is also something a 7 year old would come up with.
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