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Hope

2014 · 91 min

A stark, slow journey through a hostile desert, where fragile tenderness fights against constant danger and despair.

Overview: Deep in the Sahara desert, as they try to get to Europe, Leonard, a young man from Cameroon, rescues Hope, a Nigerian woman. In a fiercely hostile world where safety requires staying with one's own people, these two try to find their way together, and to love each other.
How it feels: Bleak, tense, earnest and romantic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Survival, immigration, love, isolation
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
immigration
love
isolation
fate
Places: wilderness
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Boris Lojkine
Written by: Boris Lojkine
Starring: Justin Wang, Endurance Newton, Dieudonné Bertrand Balo'o, Bobby Igiebor, Richmond N'Diri Kouassi, Nabyl Fally Koivogui, Henri Didier Njikam, Martial Eric Italien
Cinematography: Elin Kirschfink
Runtime: 91 min
Country: France, Morocco
Languages: French, English