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The Jolie hairdresser's shop in the Brussels is a meeting place for African women. They come to have their hair cut, to discuss things, and to flirt.

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Guy Lodge

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[A] stark, straightforward but subtly potent documentary...

Dec 15, 2019

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Richard Brody

New Yorker

Within a single salon, and amid its handful of workers and customers, Mbakam discerns the fault lines of modern life, analyzes them in terms of personal experience, and displays them with an enduring and exemplary iconographic power.

Oct 18, 2019

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Teo Bugbee

New York Times

With a view that is at once intimate and distant, Mbakam shows the duality of diasporic identity; she is never totally at home, and never totally without it.

Oct 16, 2019

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Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam

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The Jolie hairdresser's shop in the Brussels is a meeting place for African women. They come to have their hair cut, to discuss things, and to flirt.

Director: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
Producer: Geoffroy Cernaix
Distributor: Icarus Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 16, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 8, 2020
Runtime: 1h 11m

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