In his new film, Le Panthéon de la joie, Jean Odoutan follows four street kids from Ouidah in Benin. Élysée, Placide, Concorde and Aimé dance in the streets and sing their dreams of a better life in France. With the means at hand, the assumed lightness of a musical and the cult of the “égun-égun” (the ghost) as a backdrop, the film explores the causes of emigration to France.
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“Le Panthéon de la joie” by Jean Odoutan: showing the causes of emigration rather than the consequences
