Samba (2014)
Rating: 6.3/10
Duration: 118 min
Director(s): Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache,
Description:
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Cast
- Omar Sy as Samba Cissé
- Tahar Rahim as Walid aka Wilson
- Jacqueline Jehanneuf as Maggy
- Clotilde Mollet as Josiane, from the interim agency
- Izïa Higelin as Manu
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Alice
- Adel Bencherif as The seller of residence cards
- Jean-Michel Correia as The patron of the guards
- Liya Kebede as Magali aka 'Gracieuse'
- Sabine Pakora as Gracieuse, the salon manager
- Issaka Sawadogo as Jonas Karanoto
- Hélène Vincent as Marcelle
- Youngar Fall as Lamouna, Samba's uncle
- Christiane Millet as Madeleine
- Michel Winogradoff as The concierge of the hotel