{"id":1019,"date":"2020-11-30T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:38:56","slug":"premiere-la-nuit-des-rois-le-nouveau-film-de-philippe-lacote-en-salle-le-04-decembre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayilamedia.com\/en\/news\/premiere-la-nuit-des-rois-le-nouveau-film-de-philippe-lacote-en-salle-le-04-decembre\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Philippe Lac\u00f4te’s new film “Night of the Kings” in cinemas on 4th December"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new film by Ivorian director Philippe Lac\u00f4te will be released in theatres in Ivory Coast on 4 December 2020. A film that plunges the viewer into the prison world and that remains in line with the aesthetic ambitions of its director.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After being selected at the New York Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Monstra of Venice, Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/em>‘s second feature film will be released in Ivory Coast on 4 December 2020. The title of the film might make one think of Shakespeare’s play but it is not. The Night of the Kings<\/strong> is a prison film in which the director takes us to MACA<\/em>, the most populated prison in West Africa, which is located in Ivory Coast. In this prison, a new inmate, Roman, played by Bakary Kone<\/em>, is chosen as the one who will henceforth tell stories. For the principle in this prison run by the inmates themselves and in which Blackbeard, played by Steve Tientcheu<\/em>, reigns, every night an inmate has to tell a story. Roman doesn’t know what to tell, but he is obsessed with Zama’s story.<\/p>\n

With this film, which is in the running for an Oscars nomination in 2021<\/a>, Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/em> plunges us into the world of prisons without trying to take a stand or point fingers, but simply presenting a world, certainly unknown to the general public, a world with its codes with its laws with its own humanity. A world that the director knows well because his mother was detained for polical reasons for several years <\/a> and he has carried out several film activities in prisons. The film is also a metaphor of Ivorian society with its power struggles. According to the director: “It was about showing, behind closed doors, all the intrigues that could be set up to gain access to power<\/em>“. For in this film there is a lot of talk about power and a certain part of the history of Ivory Coast is thus revisited as it was already in RUN<\/strong>, Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/em>‘s first feature film.<\/p>\n