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Italy’s Best International Feature Oscar-nominated Io Capitano starts its U.S. run today in ten market on 21 screens, a bit wider than usual for Cohen Media Group but with Academy final voting just started, reviews are gold for the odyssey that director Matteo Garrone calls “a movie about human rights. About the rights of everybody to move, to look for a better life.”
That’s the quest of teenage cousins Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall), who live in a close-knit village in Senegal. They’re not starving, not in danger. They are poor, restless, want a shot at something better in Europe and are oblivious to the horrors along the way.
Sarr won Best Emerging Actor at the Venice premiere of the film, which marks the onscreen debut for both stars and the first acting role for Sarr, who, Deadline’s review says, “carries the whole movie on his shoulders like a seasoned pro, nailing the entire film in a final, heart-breaking close-up that depicts a seething confluence of contradictory emotions in a way there just isn’t a word for.”
Tens of thousands of Africans have died over the past decade heading for Italy and Europe. The ocean crossing from Libya or Tunisia is often fatal. But many perish earlier, and unknown, at the hands of brutal human traffickers, of hunger, thirst and torture in remote desert prison camps. (The events in the film are based on real life experiences) Seydou and Moussa “know [this]. They know that people die making this journey. But they haven’t seen,” Garrone tells Deadline. “When you are young, you think you are invincible. How can we judge them for the desire to discover the world?”
“It’s human,” he said. “It will not stop.”
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