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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Congo, abused by first the European colonialists, and then by the multinationals, has been caught in a seemingly endless cycle of brutul civil war for decased now, a scramble for mineral wealth in the absence of legitimate authority. 'This is Congo' offers us a portrait of the country, that shows both its beauty, and the mundane horror of the fighting, the latter filmed from remarkably close to the action. One gets a sense that the grievances on both sides are probably true, yet none of the heroes are worthy of that word. Away from the fighting, we also get a glimpse of how ordinary people live - and I'd have preferred to see more of this, about how people actually manage their everyday lives while war is going on around them. But it's still an informative portrait of what it actually means to live in a country usually prefaced by the adjective "war-torn", although it's one that offers few signs hope.

A raw honest look at mainly 3 vastly different Congolese natives, one anillegal precious stone dealer, two a tailor made to leave home for a refugee camp by the advancing destruction by the M23, and three the most alluring patriotic intelligent brutal fearless man you are to ever see on camera Colonol (kasongo) Mamadou. A Beautifully shot film with Huge Ball shrinking footage of real-time old school warfare. The editing and sound are just superb and set this documentary apart from most Good Storyville productions and any other productions for that matter. A must see with a litereral performance of the a lifetime from Colonel Mamadou. WATCH IT

I saw this documentary at the Helsinki Docpoint Festival and was surprised by its way to captivate. I had very little knowledge of the situation in Congo or its history, and enjoyed this trip through history and today. I also have to commend the people filming while bullets were flying overhead!

Wars are always a racket; they are in the end ALWAYS about the money: the DOUGH! The resources! Everybody knows that.And to me this documentary worked as a chaotic window to a world/country were a war for resources maims millions of people's lives mentally and physically. To me it was a painting of what human greed does to the ones who are not the culprits of the situations ultimate starting point.I cannot say that that I would have any idea who is the real good guy and who is the baddest, but that aside, the documentary gives you great atmosphere with just top-notch editing and filming. 9/10Must see!