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ND/NF 2007
Program Overview
7 Years
The Art of Crying
Audience of One
Congorama
Cowboy Angels
Day Night...
El Custodio
Euphoria
Glue
Gradually...
The Great World...
The Inner Life
Love for Sale
Meanwhile
Once
The Only One
The Other Half
Padre Nuestro
Red Road
Reprise
Rome Rather...
Salty Air
Shelter
Stealth
War/Dance
What the Sun...
HBO Films Roundtable
ND/NF Classics
Kick-Off Party
Ticket Info
About
Submissions
Past ND/NF Festivals
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At the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958, the Belgian colony of Congo played a prominent role, with exhibits spread over several buildings, even including a populated pygmy village. It was, indeed, Congorama in Brussels, and it’s where the multi-level, dreamlike narrative of Philippe Falardeau’s second feature begins, sort of (the action starts in the present). With the help of a superb cast headed by the Dardenne Brothers regular Olivier Gourmet, Congorama spins a tale of three continents, uncertain parentages, unlikely relationships, unaccredited inventions… and an ostrich. It is a dry comic riff on the extended notion of family and the metaphysics of a small world on a large planet.
co-production: Canada/Belgium/France
Quebec-native Philippe Falardeau studied political
science at the University of
Ottawa before traveling around the world to make 20 short
films. Congorama is his second feature film.
Wed Mar 28: 9:00pm at the Walter Reade Theater
Thu Mar 29: 6:00pm at The Museum of Modern Art
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Wed Mar 28: 9 (WRT)
Thu Mar 29: 6 (MoMA)
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