Atlantics is rooted in the dangerous realities of migration, but it's also a movie about the smudgy space between life and death, and the irresistible pull of young love.

The film is as aesthetically beautiful as it is a visionary social commentary.

I really enjoyed trying to puzzle through this and I was very impressed by the tonal balance that Mati Diop pulls off here.

Like ghosts, her films are traces, fragments of lives, histories, and emotions that refuse to fade into oblivion....operating between the realms of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the material world and the spiritual...