2020 · drama · social · migration
Eyimofe
Directed by Chuko Esiri, Arie Esiri1h 56m2020
A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and restraint that only fleetingly touch, the dream of migrating to Europe floating above them all the while.
Our read: Eyimofe (2020) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · social · migration entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / social, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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