But he is dying and others are vying to take his place, which means a violent power struggle is imminent. According to Night of the Kings, the true ruler of the Maca is an inmate named Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu, last seen in Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables). Rather than being locked in cells, the inmates seem to have free run of the place, while armed guards observe nervously from behind barricades. ![]() ![]() The prison in question feels more like a slum than a penitentiary. As well as a testament to the power of storytelling to transcend the grimmest of circumstances, it could also be read as a commentary on Ivory Coast’s own war-torn, postcolonial reality. ![]() T he Maca prison, outside Abidjan, is a world with its own codes and rules, we are told, and this imaginative, energetic Ivorian drama follows suit, blending modern-day thriller dynamics and fluid handheld visuals with older storytelling traditions to produce something unique and locally specific.
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