The African Desperate Movie (2022): Where to watch and stream online

The African Desperate

2022, Movie, 1h 37min

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

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Reviews

Critic Andy Crump

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Desperate with pleasing ingenuity that facilitates its complex perspective; this is a film that must be sat with to fully appreciate. You may even want to watch it three times.

Read full review at Paste Magazine

Critic Susannah Gruder

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The artist Martine Syms injects her radical vision into a reimagining of her MFA experience in her innovative feature debut.

Read full review at Indie Wire

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Join Palace Bryant, a recent MFA graduate, as she navigates her final 24 hours in art school. With a mix of excitement and dread, Palace must confront academic critiques, backseat hookups, and a hallucinatory odyssey that threatens to derail her plans. Will she make it back home to Chicago from Upstate New York in one piece? Find out in this hilarious and heartwarming comedy-drama.

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You can stream The African Desperate on: Mubi

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