“Dazzling Film”: noted that 5 to 4.1 is a feature film that you will absolutely see this week!

Since the 2025 Cannes Film Festival has been presented in a certain Look section, the laughter and Pedro Pino’s knife came out in our dark rooms this week. This postcolonial odyssey, which is held in West Africa, was particularly well received by the French press: from 5 to an average of 4.1, this is the best film of the week.

What are you talking about?

Sergio is leaving for the West Africa Metropolis to work on the road between the desert and the forest. In an intimate but unbalanced relationship, it was connected to two inhabitants of the city. He soon learned that an Italian engineer who was appointed on the same mission as he had a mysterious disappearance a few months ago.

What does the press thinks:

According to Inrockuptibles:

“The exciting idea of the film is a fusion of neocolonialism, which depicts it along with the issues of patriarchy, gender norms, racism and classism. 5/5

According to the liberation:

“Rarely the film has been able to combine the most unpleasant literature with ambiguity 5/5

According to Cahiers du Cinéma:

“The duration of the film multiplies its spaces, with rubles pouring fiction, if not in the ethnographic document, at least in the sequence, where you feel how much the life of Bisu-Guine actors shapes the story that names it.” Mathilde grasset – 4/5

According to Critikat.com:

“By disrupting Sergio’s actions, Pinot continues to defeat the possibility of neocolonian fiction. Then follow an accident and an inductive story that retains its character in a hot state.” By Robin Vine – 4/5

According to L’Ever:

“The fascinated beauty of the film is precisely because of its sketch and wandering art, in its erectile, through the maps of an unknown world through meetings and happy dangers.” Guillaume Loison – 4/5

According to the match of Paris:

“But the wealth of the film, as its title suggests -” Laughter and Knife “is that it is on a balancing topic in the most trivial comedy and something more difficult in observing human relationships by money and capitalism.” Yannick Vely – 4/5

According to Telram ::

“Trouble, Guinea-Beau, a well-intended young Portuguese engineer, environmental mission. By Louis Guichard – 4/5

By abuse of cinema:

“Laughter and a knife are a fried and refreshing satire of European ethnocentrism. The rare duration of three and a half hours is justified by ambition to offer the African psyche a sink. By Benjamin Bidolet – 3/5