Released:
2003-03-30

Overview:
“The River” ponders whether you can go home again, particularly if you’ve never been there. When Alfa (French rapper Stomy Bugsy) kills his drug-dealer boss in retaliation for a friend’s death, his brother cryptically suggests he leave Paris and “go toward the river.” Accompanied by sassy Senegalese cousin Marie (Auriele Coulibay), he embarks on a road trip back to his disdained African roots. Pic possesses a picaresque charm, plus feisty persona of Marie. But Bugsy is so unflaggingly morose, it’s hard to understand what Marie sees in him. Pic, yet to find a distrib in France, stands little chance in the U.S.

Director:
Mama Keïta

Runtime:
1h 35min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Stomy Bugsy
  as
  Alfa
• 
  Vincent Byrd Le Sage
  as
  Michel
• 
  Aurélie Coulibaly
  as
  Marie
• 
  Doc Gynéco
  as
  Zeka
• 
  Capucine Ackermann