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Trials tribulation dreams and aspirations of a young farmer earning a living making and selling charcoal in Congo.
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| RogerEbert.comNick AllenFilmgoers looking for something to explicitly counter August's summer movie exhaustion should get first in line for Makala. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonGorgeously enveloping... [M]ore an anthropological document that nevertheless feels like a fictional narrative. And one with mythic overtones... |
| The ListNikki BaughanA viewing experience that is not so much the study of a man but a sensory immersion; a journey of sweat and blood and steadfast resolution that is keenly, painfully felt. |
| Sunday Times (UK)Edward PorterAs well as being sure to remind you how fortunate you are, Emmanuel Gras's film is beautiful and poetic, something it achieves without condescension. |
| Paste MagazineTim GriersonMakala depicts a harsh reality, but its unexpected beauty comes from the nonchalance of its portrayal. |
| Total FilmTim ColemanIt plays like some post-apocalyptic Malick movie: thick dust storms, whispered prayers and an aching empathy for people scraping a living amid utter deprivation. |
| Cinema ScopeJames LattimerThe quest narrative and the predictable setbacks it contains ultimately tighten their grip on the film, to such an extent that Kabwita's individual fate soon feels like just another vehicle for the same eminently valid point made countless times before. |
| NonficsSarah FoulkesAvoids most of the traps of exoticism...but it makes the mistake of using observation as its only route to intimacy. |
| New York TimesBen KenigsbergTo ponder the colonial implications of a French director exoticizing a Congolese man whose family eats rats for meals is to realize that a movie can be heartwarming and heartless at once. |
| TheArtsStlSarah BoslaughMakala shows far more than it tells, allowing the story to emerge gradually from a series of gorgeous visuals. |