2010 · crime · thriller · congolese
Viva Riva!
Directed by Djo Munga1h 36m2010
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster.
Our read: Viva Riva! (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · congolese entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
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