Two American's are bored with their lives and - probably - each other so decide to travel to Africa to get some adventure back in to their lives.
Hard to get a strong grip on a film that seems so full of vagary and entering and exiting characters. Few of which seem to have much to do with the wafer thin plot.
Only when it is over do you get the master plan which seems to suggest that time travels slower in the dessert and that Africa might as well be another planet. And on another planet other rules apply.
This is set after WW II, but this seems hardly relevant in this unchanging environment of flies and dingy mud dwellings. While a turn-off to me I presume that this is part of the experience that our central characters are looking for. This would seem a dangerous place, but are they ignorant of this or is this part of the experience?
Maybe this reflects my personal ignorance or lack of observation skills but I don't really know what the couple are about or what they want. If you want my best guess - and that is all I can give - is that they don't know themselves. Travelling only broadens the mind if you have the willingness to have your mind broadened, rather in the way that two people can sit in the same French class and one learns to speak good French and other can't learn a word of it. In other words it is about intelligence and effort. There is nothing here to suggest that the characters are capable of change - no matter changed by a hot sun and sand dunes!
This is so well filmed and the setting so believable that maybe this film thought it didn't need much in the way of a script. Indeed it must be one of the most plot-empty productions of recent times. If you can get inside the film and give it a chance then you could well be intrigued rather than entertained, but there is nothing really that special going on - cinematography to one side.
Hard to get a strong grip on a film that seems so full of vagary and entering and exiting characters. Few of which seem to have much to do with the wafer thin plot.
Only when it is over do you get the master plan which seems to suggest that time travels slower in the dessert and that Africa might as well be another planet. And on another planet other rules apply.
This is set after WW II, but this seems hardly relevant in this unchanging environment of flies and dingy mud dwellings. While a turn-off to me I presume that this is part of the experience that our central characters are looking for. This would seem a dangerous place, but are they ignorant of this or is this part of the experience?
Maybe this reflects my personal ignorance or lack of observation skills but I don't really know what the couple are about or what they want. If you want my best guess - and that is all I can give - is that they don't know themselves. Travelling only broadens the mind if you have the willingness to have your mind broadened, rather in the way that two people can sit in the same French class and one learns to speak good French and other can't learn a word of it. In other words it is about intelligence and effort. There is nothing here to suggest that the characters are capable of change - no matter changed by a hot sun and sand dunes!
This is so well filmed and the setting so believable that maybe this film thought it didn't need much in the way of a script. Indeed it must be one of the most plot-empty productions of recent times. If you can get inside the film and give it a chance then you could well be intrigued rather than entertained, but there is nothing really that special going on - cinematography to one side.