‘Cinema Can Create a Reality That Doesn’t Exist Yet’
How did you create the conditions for this debate to take place? If young people aren’t at the heart of restitution, in my opinion, you completely miss the point. Giving this debate the heart of the ...
The New Yorker17d
Mati Diop and the Cinema of Impossible Returns
“My name is Mati Diop,” she went on. “I’m African. If you come to me to propose a film that deals with Africa, you’ve gotta speak the language.” “I won’t budge!” Claire Denis exclaimed, lifting her ...
‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Documentary of a Homecoming
The director observes the repatriation of 26 royal treasures to Benin from France in a short yet artful feature.
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Mati Diop’s new doc ‘Dahomey’ reveals the complexities of restitution
Mati Diop speaks on her documentary “Dahomey,” which explores the concept of restitution through the story of 26 artifacts ...
The New York Times16d
‘Dahomey’: A Daring Meditation on the Painful Legacy of Looted Artifacts
There are many voices in Mati Diop’s new documentary, “Dahomey” (in theaters), and one of them belongs to Artifact No. 26. “I lost myself in my dreams, becoming one with these walls ...
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Mati Diop’s ‘Dahomey’ focuses more on art than on people
Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for ...
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Review: In sharp documentary ‘Dahomey,’ African art returns home, but colonialism still stings
The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with ...
The Irish Times16d
Dahomey director Mati Diop: ‘I felt I had the responsibility to make sure a new wave of African cinema exists’
Mati Diop, now in her early 40s, has been making films for 20 years, but the French-Senegalese polymath properly landed with the cinemagoing public at Cannes in 2019. Atlantics, an unclassifiable ...
The Irish Times17d
Dahomey review: Mati Diop’s fascinating hybrid documentary lays out its argument in sharp fashion
One could reasonably describe Mati Diop’s fascinating hybrid as an experimental film. The French-Senegalese film-maker, whose Atlantics stormed Cannes in 2019, has certainly not taken the ...
The Globe and Mail6d
Mati Diop’s Dahomey: A poetic inquiry into cultural restitution and identity
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear prize at this year’s Berlinale, French auteur Mati Diop’s sophomore feature, Dahomey, is a film that invites questioning. Following the repatriation of 26 ...
The Boston Globe10d
‘Dahomey’: Compelling, imaginative documentary tells tale of plunder and repatriation through an unusual point of view
Actor-director Mati Diop’s documentary chronicles the transfer ... s return mirrored the journey back to the motherland that my own enslaved ancestors might have wished to make.
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‘Dahomey’ Review: Mati Diop’s Documentary of a Homecoming
In Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” the spoils of war speak. “As far back as I can go,” says a raspy yet reverberant voice over a black screen, “there has never been a night so deep and opaque.” ...