Oka! (2011)
Written and directed
by Lavinia Currier this film stars Kris Marshall, Isaach De Bankole,
Will Yun Lee and a host of real Bayaka Pygmies. An ethno-muscianist
returns from New York to the tribe he has befriended in the Central
African Republic.
Being inspired by real
events puts this film in the uneasy position of meshing fiction and
fact into something that did not really happen as shown. The plot of
the film is fairly average and does not show what I would consider
the more interesting parts of a man going to live with
hunter-gatherers in Africa. Considering many of the actors have never
acted before the film is pretty well made but does not really do much
to stand out.
3/5
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