(Le Fleuve)

Content: “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.

Countries:

France,

Guinea,

Senegal

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

95 minutes

Year:

2003

Directors:

Mama Keïta

Actors:

Alfa

Michel

Marie

Zeka

Crews:

Director