2011 · comedy · time-loop
Case départ
Directed by Lionel Steketee, Thomas Ngijol, Fabrice Eboué1h 34m2011
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.
Our read: Case départ (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · time-loop entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / time-loop, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- funny
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