‘Lingui’ Review: Dazzling Images Don’t Obscure the Clear-Eyed Drive of This Chadian Abortion Drama

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is set in the outskirts of N’Djamena in Chad, where Amina lives alone with her 15-year-old daughter Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that Maria is pregnant.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMubi, the London-based streamer and theatrical distributor, has acquired North America, U.K. and more territories on Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” a highlight of the Cannes Film Festival competition.The powerful Chadian abortion drama has received unanimous critical praise and is being talked about as a potential Palme d’Or winner at the midpoint of the festival.

The dilemma of a poor 15-year-old girl seeking an abortion in an Islamic African country where the practice is both taboo and illegal is dramatized with understated compassion in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds.

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CANNES, France -- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, whose drama “Lingui” has been a standout of the first week of the Cannes Film Festival, has a unique relationship as a filmmaker to his native country of Chad.Haroun is one of the African nation's only film directors and easily its most prominent. That role — national cinematic spokesman — has given him a heavy responsibility.“If I don’t bring images from Chad, my country will be forgotten,” Haroun said in an interview.

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Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds,” a slow burn from the Chadian filmmaker, operates through a deceptively simple premise: A single mother living on the modest outskirts of N’djamena, Chad watches her 15-year old daughter emotionally withdraw only to discover she’s pregnant. In a Muslim country where single motherhood is already frowned upon.

Christopher Vourlias Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun returns to the sun-scrubbed Sahel region of West Africa for his latest feature, “Lingui, the Sacred Bonds,” which competes for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.Set on the outskirts of the capital city of N’Djamena, “Lingui” is the story of a single mother, Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), whose already fragile world threatens to collapse when she learns that her daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio Brahim), is pregnant — a

Cannes Film Festival rolled out the red carpet for its third day with the premieres of 'Lingui', by Chadian filmmaker Mahamat Saleh Haroun, and the US film 'Stillwater' presented outside of the official competition.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAlthough she broke out playing the tough-skinned Andréa in the French show “Call My Agent!,” Camille Cottin comes off as gentle, bubbly and down to earth in real life. The hard-working Cottin didn’t shoot to fame; she became one of France’s hottest actors in her late 30s, after appearing in numerous stage plays, shorts and TV series over more than 15 years.