My Father’s Shadow
Two boys hang out with their dad for the day in My Father’s Shadow, an enormously artful film using pace and rhythm, light, shade and colour as its warp and weft. Or, if you prefer a more thematic description, a warm and intimate film about memory and the family bond. Akinola Davies made it and he says it’s about a day he and his brother Wale – who wrote it – spent with their dad when they were growing up in Nigeria. Or a half-remembered day, half-imagined even. Big, adult dad and two little village boys in awe as he takes them with him on a trip into big-city Lagos – they weren’t expecting … Read more