Critics reviews

[I]t morphs into a jazzy exploration of Luanda in all its scarred, busy beauty, soaked in sound, clashing musical sources and iridescent lights.

A highly accomplished and promising first full-length fictional outing for U.S.-trained mono-monikered multi-hyphenate "Fradique" (a.k.a. Mario Bastos), this magical realist tale set and shot in bustling capital Luanda is buoyed by a quite outstanding original jazz-inflected soundtrack by Aline Frazao, whose renown already stretches beyond her continent's shores.