A Country More Beautiful Than Before

A Country More Beautiful Than Before

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 5, 2018

Runtime

1h 6m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

90%

Original Title

Un pays plus beau qu'avant

Production Companies

Cassette for Timescapes

Director

Hannes Verhoustraete

Description

The wanderings of a retail trader, Jean-Simon, sketch the contours of a microcosmic informal economy in Congolese society. The financial urgency of everyday life is permeated by the political situation in Congo: a larger, more abstract urgency, which the diaspora experiences from a distance. The film finds itself somewhere in between these two imperatives, between here and somewhere else, the past and the present, small money and big money.