An elegant character study of father & son.

| Apr 21, 2017

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 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

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

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

[Goes] in a blink from an intriguing personal-breakdown portrait to an all-out social autopsy on life during perpetual wartime.

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

The film is quiet and thoughtful, yet forcefully makes its point about the folly of war.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2011

"A Screaming Man" is a quiet, tender, finally wrenching story of an individual at the intersection of the personal and the political.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2011

The characterizations never comfortably accommodate Haroun's pat metaphor, though his stoic visual storytelling has an oblique gravity, suggesting a slightly altered meaning to each surveying shot of the poolside patio.

| Apr 12, 2011

Ingenious and moving...

| Apr 11, 2011

This tragedy of parental betrayal is personal in scope but universal in impact.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2011

Despite its title, the film is a quiet rebuke of war and its impact on everyday life: people and families. Without a single battle scene, the horrors of war bleed through the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2011

Quietly powerful.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Haroun's tender but unsentimental regard for his characters allows his storytelling a natural gravitas thoroughly suited to the simultaneously unfolding private and national tragedies.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010