Ebbing Waves and Wages with Mati Diop’s Atlantique (2019) | Episode 60

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

Tv & Film

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Brace for the incredulous impact of this Senegalese film. On this episode we discussed wage wars, virginity tests, and the mindfulness of foreign films. Watch the film that brought Ben to tears on Netflix, and join us for a discussion about “it’s just one thing” that got Amber trippin.’ Donate to our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildwildlove/were-pregnant-and-other-lies-a-docu-comedy?ref=user_menu ________________________ Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thescifisigh?ltclid=74dee16e-c704-48b4-a577-240e80313ce7 ________________________ Hardears Instagram Live interview with Mattew Clark and Nigel Lynch Featuring Amber Wallin and Sistah Sci-Fi IG Live on Nov. 20t at 12PM CT

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0:44.4	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci. Under the Believe podcast network, it's a podcast about Black science
0:49.4	fiction and fantasy and staying on the same page in this marriage. Today for episode 60, we will be
0:55.5	reviewing the 2019 film Atlantics or Atlantique. It is a French film. Well, it's not a French film.
1:02.3	I shouldn't say that. The director is Senegalese, and I think she speaks French as well because of,
1:08.9	you know, colonization and things like that. No, she's French. She's French also. Okay, well,
1:14.1	it's it's confusing, but I'm sure France colonized Senegal. Yes. Okay, so I'm not like,
1:20.2	no, her second generation. And so she would go back to Senegal quite a bit, and she,
1:28.1	you know, she could tell, and in interview, I heard her say that she could choose to tell the story
1:34.2	through a French lens. Like that would be legitimate, but she also spent a lot of time in Senegal,
1:38.7	and she decided to focus her attention on Senegal. Which we love. And so I just do want to let people
1:46.3	know this director does have a name. The director's name is Matty D. Up. And so we're going to be
1:51.6	reviewing this film Atlantics or Atlantique. It was at Cans, and it did really well, and it won the
1:58.5	Grand Prix Award, which other films that won that award were the lobster. We love Pulp Fiction,
2:03.6	Parasite, and Oakjah. We've seen all of those movies. Yeah, yeah. I only put the ones that we saw
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