It's a story of sprawling scope on a deeply personal scale, using the family at its core as a microcosm for greater societal tragedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

The director finds himself artistically stranded between the allegorical impulse and the will to historicize.

| Nov 27, 2017

An elegant character study of father & son.

| Apr 21, 2017

Engrossing arty melodrama that brilliantly blends together a tragic political and psychological story set in modern-day Chad.

| Original Score: A | May 5, 2013

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2011

One man's dark night of the soul brought on by civil war in Chad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2011

It's a quietly devastating film, aided greatly by a haunting performance from Djaoro.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2011

Tenderly observed and admirably restrained, A Screaming Man builds into an austere, quietly haunting tragedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 15, 2011

A Screaming Man is a quiet film about family life, the relationship between fathers and children, and the way generations can shape and reshape each other. It ultimately has a sublime quality.

| May 15, 2011

This is a powerful and depressingly downbeat drama that is often hard to watch, although the inexpressive nature of the main character means that it's difficult to fully engage on an emotional level.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2011

This is not only a good-looking, well directed and splendidly shot and acted film. It is an unforgettable snapshot of a failed country, and one of the best films in London at the moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2011

Engrossing and enlightening but it doesn't quite live up to its considerable promise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2011

Betrayal, guilt, denial, faith and secrecy all roil about beneath the film's placid, almost wordless surface, which is beautifully observed with a stately, Ozu-like calmness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2011

The director's style is certainly deliberate, but the gradual build-up of events is undeniably thought-provoking, played out in images of stark beauty as Adam's personal odyssey reaches a powerful and moving conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2011

Haroun deploys no rhetoric at all. His cinema is as mute as Bresson, yet as incandescent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2011

It's an intelligent, good-looking film and one that confirms Haroun as one of Africa's leading filmmakers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2011

A moving, compassionate film, shot with near Ozu-like restraint.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2011

Beautifully understated, Haroun gives his story room to breathe and the tenderness to touch the heart. A thoughtful tale of fathers and sons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2011

Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's movie... shows the quiet desperation that results from inner and outer conflicts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2011

Draws from a personal understanding that gives its fictional story a tinge of emotional reportage.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 17, 2011