Strikingly beautiful visual mood piece that resembles in many ways the refreshing intensity of an Ozu family drama.
Waiting for Happiness (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 13
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Apr 5, 2003 Limited
Director: Abderrahmnane Sissako
Director: Abderrahmnane Sissako
Studio: New Yorker Films
Reviews for Waiting for Happiness
A skilfully shot film, with startling images and a gentle pace that frequently comes to a full stop just to capture the rhythms of life in an earthbound purgatory.
Though talk in the film often turns to death, Khatra's enthusiasm and love of life keep the movie surprisingly upbeat.
Sissako's slender narrative takes its time reaching its ambiguous conclusion.
A film that will be best appreciated by those willing to endure its extremely languorous rhythms, Waiting for Happiness is ultimately thoughtful without having much dramatic impact.
Once the audience figure out what's being said, the filmmaker's relative passivity will make it tough for them to really care.
A spellbinding African film about the modern condition of rootlessness, a state experienced by millions around the globe.
Takes you by the face, strokes your cheeks and coos beseechingly at you: slow down, shake off your tensions and take this picture at its own breezy, distracted rhythms.
The beautiful, unusual music is this film's chief draw, but its dreaminess may lull you to sleep.
Abderrahmane Sissako's Heremakono (Waiting for Happiness) is an elegiac portrait of a transit city on the West African coast struggling against foreign influences.
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