Mugana – The one who cares: a shock and never complacent film (critic)
Tripling awarded in Angoulême, this fiction finds the prism just to tell the doctor Nobélisé Denis Mukwege, masterfully camped by Isaach de Bankolé.
He started against Villeret in Black Mic Mac, before becoming one of the recurring actors of Claire Denis and Jim Jarmusch while turning with Michael Mann, Lars Von Trier, Ryan Coogler … The career of Isaach de Bankolé who unfolds on both sides of the Atlantic, is not like any other. And there is no doubt that the role of Doctor Mukwege will set a special place there. Because it was necessary all his charisma and his ability to make the moments of doubt show, of abatement in the face of an apparently impossible mission that he will however be able to carry out to his end. And to embody the multiple facets of this Congolese doctor awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for having treated thousands of women victims of genital mutilation in his country. In 2015, Thierry Michel had devoted the document to him the man who repairs women.
Marie-Hélène Roux took years so that Muganga (triple rewarded in Angoulême, by the public, the student juries and professional via the interpretation prize and who recently saw Angelina Jolie, upset by the result, joining the adventure as co-producer) was born without ever, she also gave up in front of the obstacles. And relying on the book written by Mukwege and her Belgian colleague Bernard Cadière, she built her story on the relationship between these two men, an essential cement of a shock film which seizes by the unbearable side of tragedies experienced by her women without ever switching to complacency or sensationalism. Thanks to its conscious staging of the limits not to be crossed as the need to show to understand horror. But also in the way of Bankolé kissed this character without trying to heroïser. So as not to betray him.
Of Marie-Hélène Roux with Isaach de Bankolé, Vincent Macaigne, Manon Bresch … Duration 1 h 45. Released September 24, 2025
