{"id":54474,"date":"2011-06-11T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=54474"},"modified":"2011-06-10T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T06:01:49","slug":"viva-riva-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/06\/11\/viva-riva-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Riva! Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Viva Riva!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Writer-director: Djo Tunda Wa Munga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Patsha Bay Mukuna, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo, Diplome Amekindra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign cinema conjures up a collection of very specific stereotypes, even (perhaps especially) for seasoned film fans. After all, myriad cultural dictates play a huge role in not only what types of movies get made internationally, but which are lauded and\/or positioned in a fashion to then penetrate the American cinematic market. &#8220;Viva Riva!&#8221;, a flamboyant and sprawling crime picture whose style and plotting recollects movies like &#8220;Shottas&#8221; and &#8220;City of God&#8221;, is a foreign film that smashes some of these preconceptions of what an African movie is, can or should be.<\/p>\n<p>Plot-wise, &#8220;Viva Riva!&#8221; is fairly simple and straightforward, charting the return of native son and small-time hood Riva (Patsha Pay Mukuna, exuding a raw charisma) to Kinshasa, Congo, where he turns a quick score by stealing truckloads of precious, in-demand fuel from his Angolan crime boss, Cesar (Hoji Fortuna). Out to spread some of that cheddar and have a good time at the city&#8217;s bars and strip clubs, Riva quickly goes Charlie Brown &#8212; which, in this case, is to say he falls under the sway of a red-haired girl, Nora (Manie Malone). Problem is, Nora is spoken for, the girlfriend of quasi-ineffectual local criminal kingpin Azor (Diplome Amekindra), a descendent of Congolese kings who keeps his woman under his thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Riva&#8217;s friend J.M. (Alex Herabo) tries to show him a good time and keep him out of trouble, but Riva is intent on pursuing Nora, and despite a few half-hearted dismissals she does little to definitively turn him down. Meanwhile, Cesar and his band of violent thugs make their way into town, methodically tracking down Riva through a campaign as much rooted in brute force as intimidation. After a period of time, Riva wins Nora over by returning a diamond earring Azor pawned off to pay a debt. But is she really ready to cast her lot with him, or merely using Riva as a means to the more personal end of escape?<\/p>\n<p>Writer-director Djo Tunda Wa Munga &#8212; whose film justifiably scored six African Movie Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and two Supporting Actor prizes &#8212; has a confidence that comes through in virtually every pore of &#8220;Viva Riva!&#8221;. His film is marked by a sexual frankness certainly at odds with much of African cinema, but just as striking if not more so is the unfussy, matter-of-fact candor with which the filmmaker treats the insidious reality of sociopolitical corruption in his country, as well as the juxtaposition of impoverished shantytowns with bustling, pulsating nightclubs. Tonally, there&#8217;s a certain dispassionate detachment that serves this material surprisingly well, abetted by a top-to-bottom technical polish. (The movie&#8217;s cinematography is especially gorgeous.)<\/p>\n<p>Nora is something of a cipher, oscillating between victim and cunning golddigger in a manner that doesn&#8217;t completely make sense. One also surmises that some of the subtitled translations lose a bit of flavor; after getting shot, one gangster laments, &#8220;We have to be more ruthless!&#8221; Still, &#8220;Viva Riva!&#8221; is a colorful, accomplished and involving crime drama with an evocative real-world backdrop, and proof that some genres can translate into foreign markets and back again, with glossy ease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manie-Malone-Viva-Riva.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manie-Malone-Viva-Riva.jpg\" alt=\"Manie Malone in Viva Riva\" title=\"Manie Malone in Viva Riva\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manie-Malone-Viva-Riva.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Manie-Malone-Viva-Riva-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Viva Riva! 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