Dabka Review Dabka (2017) Film Review from the 16th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Bryan Buckley and starring Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Kiana Madani, Sabrina Hassan, Maria Vos and Barkhad Abdi. In Bryan Buckley’s second directorial effort Dabka, he tries to tell the story of [...]
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- 5/1/2017
- by Mufsin Mahbub
- Film-Book
Opening with a voice-over explaining how a recent University of Toronto graduate went from surveying supermarket clerks about display placements to a becoming a freelance journalist running around Somalia, Bryan Buckley’s Dabka attempts to playfully tell the story of Jay Bahadur, author of The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World. Dabka takes an aggressive, masculine tone (one that’s almost, but not quite, frat boy-esque) that at times reminded me of Todd Phillips’ War Dogs, and it may be fitting. Here is the real-life story of a guy that finds himself miraculously with too much access and, at the same time, in over his head, and that charm (as well as naivety and lack of context), certainly helps in difficult situations.
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
- 4/30/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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