The Story of Souleymane follows an undocumented delivery worker as he prepares for an asylum application interview while pedaling through the Paris streets. But belying the innocuous title and unassuming premise, this latest narrative feature from veteran filmmaker Boris Lojkine is actually a fast-paced thriller. And also a logistical feat as Lojkine’s lens races to keep up with his less than honest protagonist as he literally cycles through a Kafkaesque EU system in which even the most mundane move might […]
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- 5/28/2024
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The Story of Souleymane follows an undocumented delivery worker as he prepares for an asylum application interview while pedaling through the Paris streets. But belying the innocuous title and unassuming premise, this latest narrative feature from veteran filmmaker Boris Lojkine is actually a fast-paced thriller. And also a logistical feat as Lojkine’s lens races to keep up with his less than honest protagonist as he literally cycles through a Kafkaesque EU system in which even the most mundane move might […]
The post “I Was Much More Influenced by Andrea Arnold’s Work or That of the Safdie Brothers”: Boris Lojkine on His Cannes Jury Prize-Winning The Story of Souleymane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Was Much More Influenced by Andrea Arnold’s Work or That of the Safdie Brothers”: Boris Lojkine on His Cannes Jury Prize-Winning The Story of Souleymane first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/28/2024
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Ioncinema.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Though Cannes might be over, we still have unpublished reviews that will be released over the next month.
In Competition:
All We Imagine as Light – [Review]
Anora – [Review]
The Apprentice – [Review]
Beating Hearts – [Review]
Bird – [Review]
Caught by the Tides – [Review]
Emilia Pérez – [Review]
The Girl with the Needle – [Review]
Grand Tour – [Review]
Kinds of Kindness – [Review]
Limonov: The Ballad – [Review]
Marcello Mio – [Review]
Megalopolis – [Review]
The Most Precious of Cargoes – [Review]
Motel Destino – [Review]
Oh, Canada – [Review]
Parthenope – [Review]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – [Review]
The Shrouds – [Review]
The Substance – [Review]
Three Kilometres to the End of the World – [Review]
Wild Diamond – [Review]
Un Certain Regard:
Armand
Black Dog
The Damned – [Review]
Dog on Trial
Flow
Holy Cow – [Review]
The Kingdom
My Sunshine
Niki
Norah
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Santosh
September Says
The Shameless
The Story of Souleymane...
In Competition:
All We Imagine as Light – [Review]
Anora – [Review]
The Apprentice – [Review]
Beating Hearts – [Review]
Bird – [Review]
Caught by the Tides – [Review]
Emilia Pérez – [Review]
The Girl with the Needle – [Review]
Grand Tour – [Review]
Kinds of Kindness – [Review]
Limonov: The Ballad – [Review]
Marcello Mio – [Review]
Megalopolis – [Review]
The Most Precious of Cargoes – [Review]
Motel Destino – [Review]
Oh, Canada – [Review]
Parthenope – [Review]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – [Review]
The Shrouds – [Review]
The Substance – [Review]
Three Kilometres to the End of the World – [Review]
Wild Diamond – [Review]
Un Certain Regard:
Armand
Black Dog
The Damned – [Review]
Dog on Trial
Flow
Holy Cow – [Review]
The Kingdom
My Sunshine
Niki
Norah
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Santosh
September Says
The Shameless
The Story of Souleymane...
- 5/28/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
This is the story of Souleymane. This is a story we need to hear. This is a story we need to understand. By now there's an entire subgenre of modern day refugee films - important, real stories about immigrants and refugees and asylum seekers struggling to make it safely into Europe and survive under the crushing weight of anti-immigration people and policy (also see: Green Border or Europa or Io Capitano). One of the latest entries in this subgenre is the film Souleymane's Story, also known as L'histoire de Souleymane in French (or The Story of Souleymane). This premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section and won two awards: Best Actor and a Jury Prize. It deserves both - the lead performance is exceptional and the storytelling in this is especially powerful. It's one of these films that might change your life - you'll never...
- 5/28/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The hype out of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, for those far-flung and on the ground, tells one story: This was among the weaker lineups in recent memory.
Sure, huge stories broke out of the festival, from Francis Ford Coppola’s distribution push for his self-funded, decades-in-the-making passion project “Megalopolis” to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fleeing his home country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, finally making it to Cannes with his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” This journey inspired the jury to award him and his film a Special Prize (Prix Spécial).
Elsewhere in the official selection, Un Certain Regard already handed out its prizes on Friday from a jury led by Xavier Dolan and including Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy. Among the top winners were Roberto Minervini (“The Damned”) and Rungano Nyoni (“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”) tying for Best Director,...
Sure, huge stories broke out of the festival, from Francis Ford Coppola’s distribution push for his self-funded, decades-in-the-making passion project “Megalopolis” to Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fleeing his home country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, finally making it to Cannes with his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” This journey inspired the jury to award him and his film a Special Prize (Prix Spécial).
Elsewhere in the official selection, Un Certain Regard already handed out its prizes on Friday from a jury led by Xavier Dolan and including Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps, and Todd McCarthy. Among the top winners were Roberto Minervini (“The Damned”) and Rungano Nyoni (“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”) tying for Best Director,...
- 5/25/2024
- by Harrison Richlin
- Indiewire
Gestern Abend wurden die Preise der Cannes-Nebenreihe „Un Certain Regard“ verliehen.
Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner der Cannes-Nebenreihe „Un Certain Regard“ (Credit: Jean-Louis Hupé / Fdc)
Guan Hus Drama „Black Dog” ist mit dem Hauptpreis der Cannes-Nebenreihe Un Certain Regardausgezeichnet worden. Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines Mannes, der nach seiner Haftentlassung in seiner Heimatstadt am Rande der Wüste Gobi einen Job in einer Truppe findet, die im Vorfeld der Olympischen Spiele streunende Hunde von den Straßen entfernen soll. Dabei freundet er sich mit einem schwarzen Streuner an.
Der Jurypreis ging an Boris Lojkines L’Histoire de Souleymane“, dessen Hauptdarsteller Abou Sangaré von der Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Xavier Dolan ebenfalls ausgezeichnet wurde. Den Preis für die beste Hauptdarstellerin erhielt Anasuya Sengupta für ihre Rolle in Konstantin Bojanovs „The Shameless“. Den Preis für die beste Regie hat die Un-Certain-Regard-Jury zweimal vergeben: an Roberto Minervini für „The Damned“ und Rungano Nyoni für „On Becoming a Guinea Fowl...
Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner der Cannes-Nebenreihe „Un Certain Regard“ (Credit: Jean-Louis Hupé / Fdc)
Guan Hus Drama „Black Dog” ist mit dem Hauptpreis der Cannes-Nebenreihe Un Certain Regardausgezeichnet worden. Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines Mannes, der nach seiner Haftentlassung in seiner Heimatstadt am Rande der Wüste Gobi einen Job in einer Truppe findet, die im Vorfeld der Olympischen Spiele streunende Hunde von den Straßen entfernen soll. Dabei freundet er sich mit einem schwarzen Streuner an.
Der Jurypreis ging an Boris Lojkines L’Histoire de Souleymane“, dessen Hauptdarsteller Abou Sangaré von der Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Xavier Dolan ebenfalls ausgezeichnet wurde. Den Preis für die beste Hauptdarstellerin erhielt Anasuya Sengupta für ihre Rolle in Konstantin Bojanovs „The Shameless“. Den Preis für die beste Regie hat die Un-Certain-Regard-Jury zweimal vergeben: an Roberto Minervini für „The Damned“ und Rungano Nyoni für „On Becoming a Guinea Fowl...
- 5/25/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
Exactly ten years after the genre-mixing, canine-driven Hungarian thriller “White God” landed the Prix Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, this year’s ceremony culminated in the same prize going to a somewhat corresponding title: Chinese director Guan Hu’s “Black Dog,” a fusion of western, film noir and offbeat comedy with a highly lovable mutt at its center. The film, about a damaged loner returning to his desert hometown after a spell in prison and finding a kindred spirit in an equally world-weary greyhound, beat 17 other titles to take the top prize in the festival’s second-most prestigious competitive section. (The festival’s Official Competition awards will be handed out tomorrow night.)
Jury president Xavier Dolan, the actor-auteur behind such films as “Mommy” and “Laurence Anyways,” commended Guan’s film for “its breathtaking poetry, its imagination, its precision [and] its masterful direction.” He echoed the enthusiasm of Variety critic Jessica Kiang,...
Jury president Xavier Dolan, the actor-auteur behind such films as “Mommy” and “Laurence Anyways,” commended Guan’s film for “its breathtaking poetry, its imagination, its precision [and] its masterful direction.” He echoed the enthusiasm of Variety critic Jessica Kiang,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Ever since they were granted essential worker status during the pandemic, food deliverers on bikes have become a steady fixture of the contemporary urban landscape. And yet, most us only interact with them for a few seconds at a time, grabbing the box of pizza or bag of food, saying thank you (if we’re polite) and quickly shutting the door.
What happens after that is the subject of director Boris Lojkine’s compelling third feature, The Story of Souleymane (L’Histoire de Souleymane), a realistic and very humanistic look at one immigrant’s grueling daily life in Paris, where he struggles to make a living and obtain legal status.
Another movie immediately comes to mind here, which is Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic, Bicycle Thieves. Both films are structured as suspenseful, ticking-clock dramas where men navigate a ruthless city as they ride around on two wheels, doing everything they can to get by.
What happens after that is the subject of director Boris Lojkine’s compelling third feature, The Story of Souleymane (L’Histoire de Souleymane), a realistic and very humanistic look at one immigrant’s grueling daily life in Paris, where he struggles to make a living and obtain legal status.
Another movie immediately comes to mind here, which is Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic, Bicycle Thieves. Both films are structured as suspenseful, ticking-clock dramas where men navigate a ruthless city as they ride around on two wheels, doing everything they can to get by.
- 5/21/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Straightened Story: Lojkine’s Details Delivery App Woes to Application Process Lows
Standing on fertile creative ground, Boris Lojkine once again explores the narratives of individuals far removed from their comfort zones, miles away from the familiar landscapes. Following 2014’s Hope and 2019’s Camille, the French filmmaker once again puts the spotlight onto individual’s plight towards a better life. Representing thousands of undocumented, replaceable people in society’s plain view, L’Histoire de Souleymane (The Story of Souleymane) doesn’t ask if you know where your food comes from? but rather, imagines the extra weight of knowing that your last step in a long journey can easily be a misstep.…...
Standing on fertile creative ground, Boris Lojkine once again explores the narratives of individuals far removed from their comfort zones, miles away from the familiar landscapes. Following 2014’s Hope and 2019’s Camille, the French filmmaker once again puts the spotlight onto individual’s plight towards a better life. Representing thousands of undocumented, replaceable people in society’s plain view, L’Histoire de Souleymane (The Story of Souleymane) doesn’t ask if you know where your food comes from? but rather, imagines the extra weight of knowing that your last step in a long journey can easily be a misstep.…...
- 5/19/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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