Sambizanga

A powerful portrayal of strong emotions and beliefs that splits the story of a political prisoner in three, his own, his wife's and his fellow revolutionaries. Rather than being simply a film about political struggle, loving devotion or personal strength in the face of police abuse it combines all those things into a broader picture of the nature of revolutionary struggle, one that is neither purely personal or detached, but a messy mixture of both as most human actions are.

The acting is a little suspect at times and I was left wanting a bit more. It seems to end pretty abruptly and while the central plot is interesting in theory, it's less so in practice. Still, it's not bad.

Em honra de Sarah Maldoror (1929 - 2020), vítima do corona. Filme poderosíssimo sobre a irrelevância do sofrimento individual frente à liberdade do coletivo anti-colonial muito bem representado na festa final, cheia de alegria. Uma grande homenagem aos que sucumbiram no processo de libertação de Angola. P.S. O Mário de Andrade creditado no filme é o revolucionário angolano e marido de Sarah, pois alguma alma perdida no imdb o linkou ao nosso poeta modernista que morreu quase trinta anos