The road “I’ll see you in my goals” is repeated continuously in Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow,” the primary movie from a Nigerian director to earn a slot within the Cannes Movie Pageant’s official choice. And in that line, maybe, is the guts of a standout movie.
Goals and ghosts determine closely into the movie, which premiered within the Un Sure Regard part of the pageant on Sunday. Whereas on the floor the drama follows a day journey taken by two younger boys and their father to the Nigerian capitol of Lagos, the movie slides between actuality and creativeness, between the pure world and the religious one. It’s a rhapsody of types, however a tough one; it examines the nuts and bolts of a household dynamic, however leaves room for thriller and is superbly elusive.
“My Father’s Shadow” opens with a reverie that mixes scenes…
