Film

Night of the Kings

Director
Philippe Lacôte
Certificate
15
Running Time
93 mins

Incacerated in a grim, overcrowded hellhole of a jail in Abidjan, new inmate Kone Bakary is appointed to the role of prison storyteller, his task being to keep his fellow wrong ‘uns entertained all night each time there’s a red moon. Should he fail in this mission . . .well, we all know the story of Scheherazade, right?

So our young anti-hero begins to invent an epic yarn, which unfolds as a story-within-a-story in this accomplished, poetic meditation on storytelling and folklore, with a side order of Ivorian politics

By robin askew, Tuesday, Jul 20 2021

Tags:

  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Art House

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