A Screaming Man'

A Screaming Man Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 2010, Chad/Belgium/France, 103 mins. Early on in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s powerful A Screaming Man, we see a confrontation between a father and a son.  Adam, the father, is scolding his son, Abdel, because he didn’t wear white to work.  They both work at the hotel pool in N’Djamena, Chad, …

A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie) Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Written by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun 2010, France, Belgium, Chad A certain school of cinema teaches that holding shots long enough will guarantee critical success and bountiful festival laurels for the poster campaign. Granted, the long take is one of the most electrifying techniques a filmmaker …