Fragments of Life (2000) [N/A]
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Featuring:
Jean Bediebe, Hélène Beleck, Jérome Bolo
Written by:
François Woukoache
Directed by:
François Woukoache
Release Date:
February 11, 2000
Original Title:
Fragments de vie
Production Countries:
Belgium | Cameroon
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 85
The film follows three stories that take place in the slums of a city in French Equatorial Africa. At nightfall, people seem to regain a vitality which explodes in the bars to the rhythm of the latest hits from the music charts. The first part tells the story of Petit-Jean, a young graduate, who is unemployed and roams the city in search of work. From humiliations to frustrations, the destiny of this young ordinary African changes dramatically. The second part follows a young girl who transforms herself into an angel of death in order to free herself from a traumatic past. The final section is of an encounter between a woman and a man who seem ordinary at first, but a past which the woman had thought had forever disappeared, resurfaces in this man.
The film takes place in the slum quarters of a city in equatorial Africa, a kind of 'grey area' in which, when the sun has gone down, the people come alive and dance themselves to exhaustion to the latest rhythms and songs in bars...
