Plot Summary:Magaye Niang, once the main actor of acclaimed Senegalese 70s film "Touki Bouki", is an average farmer today. After the screening of his only film Magaye recalls his first love who left the country years ago.
Atlantique renders its subject in elliptical fragments, within an abstracted spatio-temporal realm charged with a mouthful yet relentlessly hopeful intensity.-CinemaScope
影中人,Magaye Niang面对40年后的观众,身影被蓝紫色的光投射在银幕上。虚构和现实的界限在Mati的故事中并不存在。印象深刻的独白 “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.” 引自James Baldwin,Giovanni’s Room