Fragments of Life (2000)

• 77%
• 2000
• François Woukoache
• Jean Bédiébé
• Hélène Beleck
• Jérome Bolo

The film takes place in the slum quarters of a city in equatorial Africa, a kind of 'grey area' in which, when the sun has gone down, the people come alive and dance themselves to exhaustion to the latest rhythms and songs in bars and in discos. But that is not all that happens there. Chapter 1: A day like any other. Petit-Jean has a diploma but no job, so he wanders round town looking for work. Frustrated and humiliated, fate deals this young man a tragic blow on this day. Chapter 2: A murmuring in the night. A young girl transforms herself into the angel of death to rid herself of a traumatic past. It's a story about violence, a story about revenge, a story about the dead. Chapter 3: The shadows of a kiss. A woman meets a man, an encounter like dozens of others that evening and in that place. But this time the past she thought had disappeared forever resurfaces once more.