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Sahr Ngaujah and Nana Mensah in Farewell Meu Amor (2016)

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan

We don't even know each other anymore, or ourselves!

When we met, we didn't know if we'd live to see the next day. We didn't know who was a comrade, who was an informant, who was there for the ride. Words meant nothing. So, we danced. When I moved, you followed. When you hesitated, I slowed down, because we could feel each other.

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine in Farewell Amor (2020)

Ekwa Msangi at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Zainab Jah and Virginia Hastings at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, and Nana Mensah at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Jayme Lawson and Marcus Scribner at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Dylan Flashner at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and Ekwa Msangi at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Marcus Scribner at an event for Farewell Amor (2020)

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Zainab Jah

Jayme Lawson

Ekwa Msangi

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Farewell Amor

Surprisingly upbeat and very likeable

&quot;Farewell Amor&quot; is director Ekwa Msangi&apos;s feature film debut but you would never guess it as this remarkable film feels like the work of someone who has been making films for years. The plot revolves around an Angolian woman who comes to America with her teenage daughter to be reunited with her husband after an absence of 17 years only to discover they are virtually strangers and it&apos;s told from the point of view of all three of them. However, this is no grim problem picture but a surprisingly upbeat account of lives coming together and how something as simple as dance, for example, can engage people on the most basic of levels.

The three central performances are outstanding as Msangi glides her cast seamlessly through the twists and turns of her characters&apos; lives while getting in some nifty dance moves in the process. The fact that the wife and mother, (a splendid Zainab Jah), is deeply religious while her husband, (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, equally good), has lost his religion, if he ever had any, doesn&apos;t help matters just as her fidelity and his infidelity over the years proves a major hurdle they must overcome. But, as I said, grimness is put on the back-burner and this lovely character study is all the better for it.

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"Farewell Amor" is director Ekwa Msangi's feature film debut but you would never guess it as this remarkable film feels like the work of someone who has been making films for years. The plot revolves around an Angolian woman who comes to America with her teenage daughter to be reunited with her husband after an absence of 17 years only to discover they are virtually strangers and it's told from the point of view of all three of them. However, this is no grim problem picture but a surprisingly upbeat account of lives coming together and how something as simple as dance, for example, can engage people on the most basic of levels.

The three central performances are outstanding as Msangi glides her cast seamlessly through the twists and turns of her characters' lives while getting in some nifty dance moves in the process. The fact that the wife and mother, (a splendid Zainab Jah), is deeply religious while her husband, (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, equally good), has lost his religion, if he ever had any, doesn't help matters just as her fidelity and his infidelity over the years proves a major hurdle they must overcome. But, as I said, grimness is put on the back-burner and this lovely character study is all the better for it.

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