GOLD COAST LOUNGE Review: Pascal Aka’s Sleek, Alluring Afro-Noir Crime Drama Hits Hard And Poetic
It’s 1969, years since the West African country of Ghana gained its independence from Britain. It’s an event buried in the annals if history and not all that familiar if you’re not the most keen on world history, and it serves all the more interesting as far as storytelling templates go with actor and filmmaker Pascal Aka’s latest, Gold Coast Lounge. The typical upheaval that comes with the changing of times is on blaring display here, along with the film’s titular bar and lounge right in the heart of the city of Accra. Business is booming, the customers are happy, and everything is in place, more or less. At the center of it all is Daniel (Alphonse Menyo), bodyguard, enforcer and the right-hand man to the lounge’s president and co-founder, the currently incarcerated John Donkor (Adjetey Anang). Save for his usual respite moments of escape in the form of his […]