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Movie Review: Viva Riva! Possibly Just Enough Explicit Sex and Violence to Entertain Audiences Who Prioritize that in a Film
Throughout the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), cinema has basically been nonexistent. When it wasn’t being suppressed by colonial forces (the Dutch apparently believed that the local people couldn’t differentiate between fact and fiction, so foreign film was banned), civil war prevented any film industry from developing, with basically nothing but documentaries, foreign-produced films and news being shot in the country. This is why the release of Congolese-made action/drama film Viva Riva! is notable. The first [...]
