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Our review of Goutte d'Or: the lights are red

2023-02-28T11:04:00.335Z


CRITICISM – Seven years after his first film, Clément Cogitore plunges into the world of marabouts. With Karim Leklou, exceptional.


There is a big difference between

Neither Heaven Nor Earth

and

Goutte d'Or

.

Clément Cogitore's first film took place in the great outdoors of Afghanistan.

The one that comes out in theaters is set in the Goutte d'Or in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

But there is also a disturbing similarity: a taste for mystery, even mysticism.

On the one hand, soldiers disappear without explanation in the land of the Taliban.

On the other, a mage reassures the living by summoning the dead.

Karim Leklou is the mage, a more poetic name than marabout, who officiates in this dense district, where multiple nationalities rub shoulders, help each other, respect and insult each other.

The mage Ramses' waiting room is always full.

From a photo, he communicates with the dead, shows that he knows everything about them, talks about them as if he had frequented them.

His customers leave satisfied, soothed.

They are unaware of all the tricks of Ramses and his accomplices without whom the scam would not work.

He…

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Source: lefigaro

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