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‘Gagarine’ Star Alseni Bathily Joins Linda Lô’s Buzzy ‘Lucky Girl’ From France’s Maneki Films (EXCLUSIVE)
Lö’s feature debut, ‘Lucky Girl’ is one of the buzz titles at this year’s high caliber Atlas Workshops, part of the Marrakech Festival.
Selected in the Workshops’ Projects in Development showcase, “Lucky Girl,” also written by Lô, begins during a vacation in Bordeaux, where Lili, 4, and her brothers, aged 9 and 20, are left to their own devices when their flamboyant mother returns without them to Gabon to run her restaurant- discotheque. Depicted in three acts – as a little girl, teen and young woman – Lili grows into Linda, determined to make her mother proud and reconnect with her African heritage. Expanding on Lö’s short “We Had Fun” in its ambition, scale and fantasy tropes, “Lucky Girl” underscores a new cinema at the Atlas Workshops projects that bucks traditional social drama.
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