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The River (2003)
Directed by Mama Keïta
Drama · 1h 35m
“The River” ponders whether you can go home again, particularly if you’ve never been there. When Alfa (French rapper Stomy Bugsy) kills his drug-dealer boss in retaliation for a friend’s death, his brother cryptically suggests he leave Paris and “go toward the river.” Accompanied by sassy Senegalese cousin Marie (Auriele Coulibay), he embarks on a road trip back to his disdained African roots. Pic possesses a picaresque charm, plus feisty persona of Marie. But Bugsy is so unflaggingly morose, it’s hard to understand what Marie sees in him. Pic, yet to find a distrib in France, stands little chance in the U.S.
Cast
Stomy Bugsy
Vincent Byrd Le Sage
Doc Gynéco
Capucine Ackermann
Crew
- Director
- Mama Keïta
Details
- Original title
- Le Fleuve
- Release date
- 2003-03-30
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France, Guinea, Senegal