The River

The River ponders whether you can go home again particularly if youve never been there When Alfa French rapper Stomy Bugsy kills his drugdealer boss in retaliation for a friends death his brother cryptically suggests he leave Paris and go toward the river Accompanied by sassy Senegalese cousin Marie Auriele Coulibay he embarks on a road trip back to his disdained African roots Pic possesses a picaresque charm plus feisty persona of Marie But Bugsy is so unflaggingly morose its hard to understand what Marie sees in him Pic yet to find a distrib in France stands little chance in the US