Genre cinema rarely feels as multifaceted as Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot’s gonzo thriller Saloum, which combines its disparate influences with such abandon that you can’t help but go along for the ride. Propulsively lurching with infectious glee from crime drama to modern-day Western to horror suffused with supernatural elements, this may turn out to be the rare African film that enters the international mainstream, or, at the very least, achieves cult movie status. Appropriately showcased in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival, the feature marks its director-screenwriter and his creative partner, producer Pamela Diop, as talents to ...
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