The Exile

Name: The Exile
Genre: Drama
Released: 1980-01-02
Rating: 7

Drama1h 30m

🍅91%

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91%

Tomatometer

7.0

TMDB

Storyline

Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets of his kingdom to listen to the wishes of his own people. One day he overhears two brothers daydreaming out loud about marrying the king's daughters, even if that meant being beheaded one year later. The weddings take place and one of the brother is decapitated one year later. The other one escapes execution at his wife's insistence. On a long journey full of surprising incidents, our hero himself becomes king of a village with wives and subjects. However, his earlier promise haunts him, and in order to save his family he accepts to be sacrificed.

Details

DirectorOumarou Ganda

ReleasedJan 2, 1980

StatusReleased

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

Guy Lodge

RTVarietyFeb 15, 2020

Slicing into its protagonist's psyche with surgical finesse and discomfort, this queasy-comic character study pulls off a subtly perilous balancing act...

Keith Uhlich

RTThe Hollywood ReporterJan 31, 2020

Matičević is sensational as the lead, keeping his ruggedly handsome features death-mask stoic throughout.

Nick Allen

RTRogerEbert.comJan 30, 2020

The kind of thriller that Michael Haneke would make after learning he didn't get invited to a friend's party, and Morina's film builds from that influence with his own audacious visual storytelling.

Dennis Harvey

RT48 HillsMay 27, 2021

A "thriller" in much the same low-key workplace nightmare way that last year's The Assistant was, this is a very discomfiting film made no less so by the fact that our beleaguered protagonist isn't always a particularly sympathetic figure.