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An African space mission is secretly preparing. Similarly, Objective: colonize the planet Nardal. However, Lack of thickness of the characters, unwashing valves … Furthermore, This story of space is not crazy.
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Jean-Pascal Zadi ready for an. Similarly, orbit from Côte d’Ivoire. But on a wobbly base … Photo Mika COOLLON/Twelve Productions/Gaumont Production/France gags fuse, comedy does not 2 cinema fingers
Posted on June 24, 2025 at 5.30 p.m.
Updated on June 24, 2025 at 6:05 p.m.
«Din space. no one will hear you screaming ”, warned the poster ofAlien, the eighth passenger, In 1979. Not sure that you can hear more about laughter in front of this comedy signed Jean-Pascal Zadi. who saw an African crew take off towards a potentially habitable planet called Nardal-after Paulette Nardal, a Martinican pioneer of negritude. Almost five years after the excellent surprise of Simply black. Where his character was trying to rally, in a falsely documentary mode, celebrities to a march of black men, the author puts gas and propels his political-comic questioning in the ambitious spheres of science fiction.
Behind this mocking title The conspiratorial. racist gags fuse, comedy does not theory of the “great replacement”, Zadi and his coscenarist imagine, in fact, that a Pan -African space center based in Abidjan, in Côte d’Ivoire, has put a secret station in the nose and the beard of NASA. It remains to recruit a shock team to lead the vessel to a more hospital star than the land. thus transform ex-colonized into future settlers.
A little of Black Panther For the technological revolution. a touch ofInterstellar and Alone on March For the stakes and a large raza of unwanting valves at the OSS 117 (“He has a good back, slavery!” We can’t say anything as soon as we touch blacks ”. Zadi plague in a French role indifferent to history) are not enough, alas, to produce the expected deflagration. Between the rereading of the expectations of the genre (training, storms, exit in a spacer and drifts gags fuse, comedy does not in the cosmos …). the characters without thickness, reduced to their more or less antagonistic origins, the film spins at the speed of light (not even an hour and a half) and nevertheless seems long. A demonstration of the relativity of time.
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