Disco Boy

A journey both geographical (the story travels to Africa and the Niger Delta before returning to Paris) and mystical (featuring ghosts, visions and possession/redemption/liberation), this strange, incredibly physical and sensorial war film, which is awash with fleeting clues and cryptic symbolism beneath its intense action-movie exterior, flaunts a markedly modern personal style which has perfectly processed its various influences, ranging from Apocalypse Now to the global geopolitical tensions brought about by migration (and the environmentally unfriendly predation of raw materials), and from indoctrination of minds to direct shamanistic communication with souls.

Fabien Lemercier / Cineuropa