Dominik Moll’s Only the Animals opens on a shot of a young man riding a bike through the streets of what we’ll later learn is Abidjan, the Ivory Coast’s largest city. Strapped to his back like a backpack is goat...
Of the many times Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is reminiscent of other, better things, the most exciting is the opening sequence, which, with its Steadicam roaming through young bodies in motion soundtracked by droning music, is like a more proletarian...
