#saloum (film)

[proustianrevelry]

Jean Luc Herbulot, writer & direcor of Saloum (2021): I was heavily inspired by Metal Gear Solid

Character in Saloum (2021): ghosts can't enter the building due to artificial light and magnetic waves

[tatiregis]

Saloum, 2021. Dir: Jean Luc Herbulot.

País: Senegal.

[qedmirage]

Saloum

Saloum is a fun little movie, excellent crime thriller tension. I really like the intro setting cards:

After that the film follows our mercenaries on the run as they're forced to land off-course, their plane sabotaged somehow. And the film goes from 0 to 60 real fast. As an example, not exhaustive, of what "the most suspicious dinner party on earth" looks like, here's their weird host Omar introducing a friend:

But this is a film from Shudder, and without spoiling anything, halfway through you get a shift to the kind of movie where people say things like this:

Honestly the first half is so good I want to see an entire movie of just that, the second half is good too! It just doesn't have the all gas no breaks tension fun of being a 90 minute thriller in 45.

[waywordsstudio]

13 Days of Halloween: "Saloum" (2021) Review

#moviereview #halloween #horror #horrormovie #13DaysOfHalloween #senegal #saloum #thrillerhorror

[bobduh]

Summer 2023 - Week 6 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I write to you from the midst of a furious thunderstorm, which I’m hoping will at some point calm down enough for me to get on with some apartment hunting. But whether I am swept away by the torrential rains of August or not, I will at least have left you all with another collection of ramshackle film reviews. This week our cinematic…

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2024-09-16

It's Autumn

This is late because turns out there's not really a polite way to finish tapping out your Mondaypost when someone else is already in your bed.

Listening: a recommendation from the Topic Lords podcast, Ancient Sword Cult by Writhen Hilt. It's about swords!

Epic fantasy metal is a tremendously funny genre.

Watching: Watched Saloum with @thosearentcrimes because we heard it on Kill James Bond and both went "that sounds cool as hell" and it was!

Another great addition to the group of films where guys turn to the camera and go "Hey does anyone else feel doomed."

This is a really tense and well put together crime drama, some top-tier monologues and characters who are going all out. Very much worth watching without looking up too much about it I think.

Reading: Started A Desolation Called Peace a few days ago. Three Seagrass! She's so clueless! Man my girlfriend is so cool it's a shame she's not a complete person.

Having read Memory, then all of The Masquerade, and now Desolation, I think this gives me an interesting look at what I like and don't like about each series. Teixcalaan doesn't spend so much time obsessing over little world details, instead building a culture and atmosphere of empire that I really enjoy. The Masquerade is more on the ground which has benefits, but it's somewhat artificial feeling. It's at its best in the very personal moments around Baru and the other cryptarchs.

Still getting through Desolation though.

Playing: Mine Craft. I've been fiddling with some mods like Distant Horizons which does low-res renders of the world out way further than the stock game. I always get back into Minecraft for like three weeks and then put it down for another year. I have a whole lot of thinking done on how the game design of Minecraft is very cleverly pushing on different kinds of players

Making: Printing again for the first time in a while, more home objects. Finally have an excuse to get dozens of tiny neodymium magnets!

Tools and Equipment: I got a new-ish oscilloscope! Proper digital one too, Hantek DSO2D10. It has one feature I consider a nice-to-have and one feature I consider essential for cramped home lab use.

The essential feature is a built-in signal generator. Sure, it can only do a couple dozen MHz cleanly and "cleanly" is being generous there, but for like a $50 premium over a similar non-generator scope you get a single channel generator with arbitrary waveform capabilities, very handy. Saves a lot of space and makes you more likely to actually use the damn thing.

The nice-to-have is built-in logic analyzer features. Yes, a digital logic analyzer will do this better and cheaper, and yes, you could even just dump the waveform and analyze it on a computer, but being able to poke around on a board and just hit "tell me what I'm looking at here" on a random bitstream is tremendously valuable for speed and comfort.

The DSO series is pretty cheap, they're no Tektronix or Keysight, but they're a damn side better than pure analogue, having used pure analogue for a long time. Just skip it, storage and maths functions are so worth it.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 701-800

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Ringu (1998) had the most votes with 1,327 votes. Chillerama (2011) had the least votes with 360 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the most watched film with 80.9% of voters out of 780 saying they had seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.4% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

The Nun 2 (2023) was the least watched film with 70.6% of voters out of 633 saying they hadn’t seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "No" votes with 9.2% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the best known film, only 0.4% of voters out of 780 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) was the least known film, 90,4% of voters out of 491 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

The Uninvited (1944) The Crazies (1973) Witchfinder General (1968) The Conspiracy (2012) When a Stranger Calls (1979) The Evictors (1979) The Birds (1963) Ice Spiders (2007) Rubber (2010) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Daughters of Darkness (1971) Akira (1988) The End of Evangelion (1997) The Woman in Black (2012) Milfs vs. Zombies (2015) Knife + Heart (2018) It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) Attachment (2022) Gothic (1986) Jakob's Wife (2021)

Stranger by the Lake (2013) The Fog (2005) The Greasy Strangler (2016) Angel Heart (1987) Tumbbad (2018) The Snow Woman (1968) Sugar Hill (1974) Saloum (2021) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Sound of Violence (2021) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) Death Laid an Egg (1968) Baskin (2015) The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) The Haunting of Julia (1977) The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Megan Is Missing (2011)

Ringu (1998) Three... Extremes (2004) Trench 11 (2017) Out There Halloween Mega Tape (2022) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) The Driller Killer (1979) Berberian Sound Studio (2012) One Cut of the Dead (2017) Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005) Motel Hell (1980) Shallow Ground (2004) Annabelle: Creation (2017) Annabelle Comes Home (2019) The Conjuring 2 (2016) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Morgan (2016) Sputnik (2020) Devil's Pass (2013)

Dracula's Daughter (1936) Dagon (2001) We Are Still Here (2015) We Are What We Are (2013) Somos lo que hay (2010) The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Midori (1992) The Believers (1987) Troll 2 (1990) Chillerama (2011)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) The Mortuary Collection (2019) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) House (1985) Flatliners (1990) The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) Crimson Peak (2015) Frailty (2001) Hell Night (1981)

Eyes of Fire (1983) Sister Death (2023) Tonight She Comes (2016) Bad Dreams (1988) Dead Snow (2009) Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) Veronica (2017) The Nun II (2023) Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Maniac (1980)

Man's Best Friend (1993) M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020) The Reptile (1966) She Creature (2001) Beetlejuice (1988) The Incredible Melting Man (1977) Kandisha (2020) So Vam (2021) Bit (2019) Death Proof (2007)

[mycatwantstoeatpins]

I saw a post recently where someone was commenting on the batshittery of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels - I can't find it now but someone in the reblog chain recommended the Kill James Bond! podcast.

I listened to every episode over Christmas/New Year because it is an amazing podcast.

This is Alice's opening line in the first episode, though I can't do justice to how she delivers it:

'Hello and welcome to the first episode of Kill James Bond, a podcast in which us three pursue noted tuxedo spy dickhead James Bond Sr through 24 films, innumerable other properties and - I wanted to mention why we're doing this, right - James Bond is a fucking arsehole, man.'

There's a free episode every fortnight and a bonus episode on alternate weeks. The hosts have covered all the James Bond movies so they've moved on other spy movies for the free feed; they're currently working through the U.N.C.L.E. movies.

The hosts are very funny but they also talk intelligently about the movies and their subject matter (sometimes both, like where Alice, Devon and the guest host Komodo Dad are yelling about the misrepresentation of the Nuremberg defence in A Few Good Men).

They've done really dumb movies like Penguins of Madagascar and Cars 2, and those episodes are great, but some of the more serious episodes are the ones that stand out - Saloum, with guest host ML Kejera; The Lives of Others; and The Name of the Rose with guest host Dr Eleanor Janega.

Anyway, I'll end this post with a couple of jokes I liked in the episode on The Living Daylights:

[Devon] This is the Bond film where they're like, 'hey, the mujahideen, these guys fucking own, we should give them money and guns if possible.'

[...]

[clip from the film] My name is Kamran Shah. Please forgive the theatricals; they're a hangover from my Oxford days.

[Alice] And Bond goes 'Ah, this reminds me a lot of the time when I spoke to a Bedouin arms dealer in a tent in Egypt when I was the same man and that guy also went to Oxbridge, because I'm the same guy.'

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Rotten Roulette Announcement 😱

hi all! we’ll be continuing our random Friday film stream with the Senegalese supernatural horror film Saloum (2021) on 10/13 at 8:00pm EST/12am GMT.

a group of mercenaries encounter something unnatural near Saloum Delta.

it's in English, Wolof, and sign language with a 1 hour 24 minute runtime.

it's unrated but i would suggest an R. features:

moderate violence

child sexual abuse

child abuse

torture

insects

[fatherramiro]

top 5 new-to-you movies you've seen this year?

SALOUM. Everyone shut up and go watch it now. I'm serious

Al Berto. Literally if you're noticing a theme here, no you're not :)

M3gan. A flawless film

Talk To Me. I don't think I can ever watch it again but it fucks

Nimona!!! A perfect film that healed my inner child.

[sloshed-cinema]

Saloum (2021)

There’s something exhilarating about when a movie grabs the viewer by the scruff of the neck and shouts, “Come along fucker, I know exactly what I’m doing.” The opening minute or so of Saloum, shifting from hallucinatory imagery of a boy wading out into the river with sun and moon arrayed overhead to a kinetic and immaculately choreographed handheld tracking shot of the Hyenas of Bangui retrieving a drug lord from Bissau shows in miniature the genre swath the film will explore. Much of the first half of the film adopts the energy of a sharp, stylish crime thriller with precise and breathless camera work accompanied by splashy graphics in an experience akin to what you might get in a Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie actioner. Nodding to but never leaning heavily on the tropes of the genre, Saloum traps its protagonists, already caught back on their heels and in the middle of nowhere, in a web of tension: the camp they find themselves at harbors many threats to their survival. A sequence of conversations builds a house of cards on a knife’s edge, any false move threatening to expose the Hyenas.

While it flits at the periphery in the form of nightmare sequences early on, the Hyenas’ arrival at a strange commune in remote Saloum isn’t actually wholly a coincidence. Ringleader Chaka reveals he has a dark past as a child soldier held captive by the man now running the camp. It’s here when the film transitions rather abruptly to a horror film: spirits are present everywhere here due to the cycle of violence and anguish in the space, of which Chaka’s child slavery/soldierdom is simply the latest iteration. The entities that plague the survivors are a little silly, resembling a swarm of bees or dense cluster of ash with horns, killed all too easily except for when necessary, and the exposition dump explaining it all is a touch rapid. But it’s almost impossible for these missteps to overshadow the raw charisma of the opening half. Let the spiritualism that has been hinted at in the flashbacks and in fellow Hyena Minuit’s shamanic advisory come roaring to the fore. A mere Western isn’t enough to contain this cycle of suffering, it has to be rendered even more operatic and exorcised.

THE RULES

SIP

A flashback begins.

Someone is knocked out by white powder.

Spooky specter!

BIG DRINK

Voiceover narration begins.

Location establishing text.

[life-kaan]

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Blue Finch Films acquires worldwide rights to Jean Luc Herbulot's "Zero"; set for Sitges Film Festival

UK-based sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has acquired worldwide rights to “Zero,” an action thriller directed by Jean Luc Herbulot, according to Variety exclusive report. Herbulot is known for his 2021 TIFF Midnight Madness selection “Saloum.” “Zero” has been selected for the first wave of the Sitges Film Festival, with further festival announcements anticipated. The film’s plot…

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Trafic de cocaïne : Un célèbre lutteur tombe...le film de l’arrestation musclée ! 

La sûreté urbaine a mis hors état de nuire le célèbre Saloum-Saloum pour trafic de drogue. Selon les informations de Seneweb, le lutteur a été arrêté par les hommes du commissaire Bara Sangharé, qui ont trouvé de la cocaïne. Serigne Saliou Samb, plus connu sous le nom Saloum Saloum, a été appréhendé dans la nuit du mercredi dernier par la sûreté urbaine dans un bar sis à Dieuppeul. Après avoir…

[renemartens]

Niedrigschwellige Mischung aus harten politischen Informationen, erhellenden biologischen Details und emotionalen Passagen

Der folgende Text zu dem von der Ninja-Tune-Künstlerin und Meeresbiologin Jayda G präsentiertem Dokumentarfilm „Blue Carbon – Die Superkraft der Natur“ (Regie: Nicolas Brown, Buch: Kirsty Lang) ist anlässlich der TV-Ausstrahlung Ende November bei epd Medien erschienen (Ausgabe 50/23). Seit Anfang dieser Woche steht der aufwändige Film nun für drei Monate in der 3sat-Mediathek.

Weltweit sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten zahlreiche Küstengebiete, deren Pflanzen CO2 aus der Atmosphäre binden und langfristig speichern können, zerstört worden, unter anderem durch Trockenlegung. Erst die immer weitere Zuspitzung der Klimakrise hat zu einer Würdigung dieser Regionen geführt. Auf solche Ökosysteme in den USA, Frankreich, Vietnam, Senegal, Kolumbien und Brasilien blickt die internationale Koproduktion „Blue Carbon – Die Superkraft der Natur“. Der sogenannte blaue Kohlenstoff, von dem im Titel die Rede ist, entsteht, wenn er in Blättern, Stämmen oder Wurzeln von Mangroven oder in Seegras gespeichert wird.

Durch den Dokumentarfilm führt die kanadische Meeresbiologin Jayda Guy, die unter dem Namen Jayda G auch als Disco-und House-Produzentin und DJ bekannt ist. Sie stellt unter anderem Projekte vor, mit denen Einheimische etwa im Senegal oder in Kolumbien Mangrovengebiete erhalten oder durch Neupflanzungen ausbauen. Ermöglicht wird dies unter anderem  durch Kompensationszahlungen von Unternehmen, die damit ihren Ausstoß an CO2 ausgleichen.

Im Senegal widmen sich die Filmemacher gleich mehreren Schauplätzen. Guy und der Fotograf und Filmemacher Cherif Koury, der zeitweilig zu einer Art Co-Präsentator wird, besuchen das Dorf Nema Ba im Sine-Saloum-Delta, wo eine „am Rande des Existenzminimums“ lebende Gruppe von Frauen die Wiederaufforstung von Mangroven betreibt. Und in der Saint-Louis, einer Großstadt an der Nordwestküste des Landes, führen sie das Publikum zu einer „Frontlinie der Klimakrise“. Gemeint ist damit ein Camp für Klimaflüchtlinge: Menschen, die innerhalb der Stadt umsiedeln mussten, weil ihre Häuser am Meer bei einer Überschwemmung zerstört wurden.

Die Produktion erinnert in ihrer Machart an „The Great Green Wall“, einen anderen Dokumentarfilm zum Thema Klimawandel, in dem Musik eine tragende Rolle spielt. Hinter „The Great Green Wall“, 2019 im Kino gestartet, steht ebenfalls die britische Produktionsfirma Make Waves; auch hier fungiert eine Musikerin als Presenterin: Inna Modja aus Mali.

Bei „Blue Carbon“ ist die Symbiose zwischen Musik und Wissenschaft aber stärker ausgeprägt. Jayda Guy nahm während ihrer Masterarbeit über Orcas Walgesänge auf, die sie in einem Stück ihres Debütalbums verwendete. In „Blue Carbon“ sieht man sie immer wieder, wie sie ein Mikrofon in die Natur hält, um Klänge einzufangen, um sie gegebenenfalls auf späteren Platten zu nutzen. Mit einem Hydrophon nimmt sie zum Beispiel in Florida das Schmatzen von Seekühen auf, das entsteht, wenn sie auf Seegras kauen. Am Ende von „Blue Carbon“ steht schließlich ein von Jayda G produzierter Song, der Samples eines spirituellen Liedes enthält, das sie in Kolumbien aufgenommen hat.

Die Filmemacher verstärken die Rolle der Musik noch an verschiedenen Stellen. Die Länder, die in „Blue Carbon" vorkommen, werden mit musikalischen Mitteln eingeführt - sei es mit einer singenden Mangrovenwald-Aufseherin auf der vietnamesischen Insel Can Gio oder einer Folklore-Kapelle in der südfranzösischen Camargue. Ein weiteres musikbezogenes Gestaltungselement, jedenfalls ab dem zweiten Drittel: Plattencover. Anspielend auf die DJ-Tätigkeit seiner Presenterin, lässt Regisseur Brown sie immer dann, wenn der Film in ein neues Land führt, eine Platte aus einer Hülle ziehen, die aus eben jenem Land stammt.

„Blue Carbon“ ist im guten Sinne gefällig erzählt, und es ist durchaus bemerkenswert, wie Autorin Kirsty Lang und Regisseur Nicolas Brown eine niedrigschwellige Mischung aus harten politischen Informationen, erhellenden biologischen Details und emotionalen Passagen unterschiedlichster Art hinbekommen. So erzählt Guy von ihrem früh verstorbenen Vater, dem sie ihre Naturverbundenheit verdankt. Auch unterhaltsame Passagen fehlen nicht: Guy ist dabei, als Frauen in Nema Ba tanzend und singend im Wasser Austern sammeln, und ausgerechnet sie, die Tanzmusikproduzentin, macht dabei eine falsche Bewegung und plumpst hinein.

Eher pflichtschuldig wirkt es indes, wenn Jayda Guy ihre eigenen Selbstzweifel artikuliert: Ihr Leben als Künstlerin widerspreche ihrem Kenntnisstand als Wissenschaftlerin, sagt sie. Unter anderem, weil bei ihren Auftritten auf großen Festivals enorm viel Müll anfalle, sei Ihr ökologischer Fußabdruck zu hoch, sagt die 34-Jährige. Aber: „Jayda Guy kann Jayda G verzeihen, denn sie nutzt ihre Berühmtheit, um Gutes zu tun.“ Das klingt dann doch ein bisschen zu gravitätisch.

Die Äußerung fügt sich ein in den überdosiert optimistischen Grundton des Dokumentarfilms, der schon im Untertitel „Die Superkraft der Natur“ zum Ausdruck kommt. Ein Fazit des Films lautet: „Keine Technologie, die wir Menschen erfinden“, sei „derart effizient und vielseitig“ wie blauer Kohlenstoff. Wie das einzuordnen ist, darüber informiert der auf deutscher Seite beteiligte NDR in seinem Presseheft: „Um eine Klimakatastrophe zu verhindern, müssen wir bis 2030 jährlich mindestens 23 Milliarden Tonnen CO2 aus der Atmosphäre ziehen. Geschützte und wiederhergestellte Blue-Carbon-Systeme können fünf Prozent davon einlagern.“ Letztlich geht es also nur um relativ kleine Erfolge, die dank der „Superkraft“ möglich werden.

#Jayda G #Klimakatastrophe #Meeresbiologie