Un homme qui crie 2010

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's movie... shows the quiet desperation that results from inner and outer conflicts. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: "A Screaming Man" is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: [Goes] in a blink from an intriguing personal-breakdown portrait to an all-out social autopsy on life during perpetual wartime. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Ingenious and moving... Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The film is quiet and thoughtful, yet forcefully makes its point about the folly of war. Read more

Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail: Despite its title, the film is a quiet rebuke of war and its impact on everyday life: people and families. Without a single battle scene, the horrors of war bleed through the screen. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This tragedy of parental betrayal is personal in scope but universal in impact. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: It's an intelligent, good-looking film and one that confirms Haroun as one of Africa's leading filmmakers. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Haroun's tender but unsentimental regard for his characters allows his storytelling a natural gravitas thoroughly suited to the simultaneously unfolding private and national tragedies. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: The characterizations never comfortably accommodate Haroun's pat metaphor, though his stoic visual storytelling has an oblique gravity, suggesting a slightly altered meaning to each surveying shot of the poolside patio. Read more