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  • 2024
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2024
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
Disco Boy

Summary Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a ...

Directed By: Giacomo Abbruzzese

Written By: Giacomo Abbruzzese

  • 2024
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2024
  • Big World Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

Disco Boy

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a ...

Directed By: Giacomo Abbruzzese

Written By: Giacomo Abbruzzese

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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31% Mixed
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90
Feb 1, 2024
Disco Boy is a lean but sweepingly ambitious film crafted with formal rigor.
By Brandon Yu FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 29, 2024
Themes of imperialism and exploitation add background textures to three muscular performances and a mysterious cinematic adventure.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 21, 2023
Even when Disco Boy threatens to be too much or too little, however, Rogowski’s strange, sparse, plaintive performance keeps its soul intact, and its most poignant query afloat above all the flash and dazzle and neon lights: just how much of themselves people will sacrifice for a paper identity.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 21, 2023
At a taut and elliptical ninety minutes, a couple of awkward final steps hardly feel like fatal flaws. Getting in, getting down, and getting out as style hopping sizzle reel, Disco Boy heralds a promising new talent who totally has the moves.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 17, 2024
It’s a somewhat unfocused narrative, relying on music and “disco” dance as a bonding device, one of a few novel touches in a story that’s all-too-familiar.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 22, 2023
It’s also perhaps the first leading role of his glittering career to date where Franz Rogowski is miscast, feeling inappropriate or perhaps too worldly for the naive military grunt at the center; either way, the film’s debuting director Giacomo Abbruzzese attempts drawing out a performance that hits predictable notes of machismo, despair, and anguish.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 27, 2024
Unfortunately, Disco Boy is afflicted with the curse of trying to pack too much (in terms of both style and substance) into its 92-minute runtime, rendering it incapable of saying much at all.
By Marina Ashioti FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Films Grand Huit, Dugong Films, La Compagnie Cinématographique, Panache Productions, Donten & Lacroix Films, Division, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Stromboli Films, Eurimages, La Région Île-de-France, Région Réunion, CVS Belgique, Cinémage, Cinéaxe 2, Arte/Cofinova 17, Breizh Film Fund, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Podkarpacki Fundusz Filmowy, VOO, BE TV, Canal+, Ciné+, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), Cinémage 15, Tax Shelter de Movie Tax Invest
Release Date Feb 2, 2024
Duration 1 h 32 m
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Awards

Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 2 Nominations

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