2023 · drama · war · survival
Disco Boy
Directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese1h 32m2023
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei, a Belarusian, joins the Foreign Legion in France and clings to a confused hope of a European identity. Jomo, a Nigerian, fights for the survival and durability of his people in the Niger Delta and is ready to die to defend his ideas. These two young people who are sacrificed and smashed together will, against all odds, meet and their destinies will merge to continue across borders, bodies, life and death...
Our read: Disco Boy (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal drama · war · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / war, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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