{"id":2289528,"date":"2026-02-19T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289528"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:18:15","slug":"soumsoum-the-night-of-the-stars-review-mahamat-saleh-harouns-latest-is-a-desert-parable-that-loses-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soumsoum-the-night-of-the-stars-review-mahamat-saleh-harouns-latest-is-a-desert-parable-that-loses-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars\u2019 Review: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun\u2019s Latest Is a Desert Parable That Loses Its Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun<\/a> sets his latest film, \u201cSoumsoum, the Night of the Stars<\/a>,\u201d in the Ennedi desert of his native country. Following Kellou, a young woman who sees distressing visions of the past and future, the film is both a mystical parable and a metaphor-heavy narrative. While the story takes place in contemporary times, some of the characters have extraordinary gifts and tell tall tales of a world beyond the realm of most people. The journey it takes the audience on, however, is only intermittently entertaining. It has moments of beauty and even poetry, but too many others of tedium.<\/p>\n

Ma\u00efmouna Miawana plays Kellou with an open-hearted and gentle determination that suits this character who thinks of herself as an outcast. In her tiny village she\u2019s called a \u201cblood girl,\u201d because her mother died while giving birth to her. Her father Gabra (\u00c9riq Ebouaney<\/a>) is a stranger who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun sets his latest film, \u201cSoumsoum, the Night of the Stars,\u201d in the Ennedi desert of his native country. Following Kellou, a young woman who sees distressing visions of the past and future, the film is both a mystical parable and a metaphor-heavy narrative. While the story takes place in contemporary times, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2289528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Soumsoum-the-Night-of-the-Stars-Review-Mahamat-Saleh-Harouns-Latest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289530,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289528\/revisions\/2289530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}