Writer | Director | Producer: Jadesola Osiberu
Dakore Akande plays the lead role in Isoken, a true to life film many viewers can relate to. I could relate to her younger sister who got married and wanted out of the marriage but was still keeping up for what society would say.
SYNOPSIS
Isoken's life appears to be perfect. She is beautiful, intelligent, successful and a returnee graduate but the Osayande family members still worry about her state of unmarriedness at 34. In a culture obsessed with marriage, she struggles to stay afloat of their poke-nosing strategies.
She meets Osaze, courtesy of her overbearing mother, at her younger sister's wedding. Osaze is handsome, successful and from a good family, making him a perfect Nigerian husband material. They start to date.
Later, Isoken meets Kevin, a Caucasian whom she also falls in love with. She has to choose between money, power and fame with Osaze and the love of music, art, books, creative in-betweens and other simple things like taking rickshaws and walking in Balogun market with Kevin.
This film is a comedy drama which gives an insight into cultural expectations, marriage panorama, feminism, classism, racial stereotypes and family bonds in the Nigerian context.
REVIEW
Art buffs like me will enjoy seeing many books, many art works, live band music performances (the intro-live music performance of one of Victor Uwaifo's song is performed by my colleague, a jazz guitarist, Femi Leye) and great soundtracks and played music ranging from jazz to soul to pop to juju and to afro juju.
I loved to see Isoken stand out in really creative gele and natural hair styles and artistic fashion. Her sleek side is also outstanding.
The lighting is above average. Except for a brief non correlation between the sound and the movement of mama Isoken's mouth at the beginning of the movie, the sound is good.
The cast was adequately selected. I particularly enjoyed watching Lydia Forson and Funke Akindele who reminded me so much of her lookalike, Cookie Lyon of Empire.
The dialogues are the regular conversations that arise in this kind of situation.
The editing is above average.
The final scene of choreographed dance could have been better if neatly choreographed and there should have been a clear distinction between the choreographed dance and the dance for all in which the back stage crew partook in.
I rate the movie an 8/10.
I loved to see Isoken stand out in really creative gele and natural hair styles and artistic fashion. Her sleek side is also outstanding.
The lighting is above average. Except for a brief non correlation between the sound and the movement of mama Isoken's mouth at the beginning of the movie, the sound is good.
The cast was adequately selected. I particularly enjoyed watching Lydia Forson and Funke Akindele who reminded me so much of her lookalike, Cookie Lyon of Empire.
The dialogues are the regular conversations that arise in this kind of situation.
The editing is above average.
The final scene of choreographed dance could have been better if neatly choreographed and there should have been a clear distinction between the choreographed dance and the dance for all in which the back stage crew partook in.
I rate the movie an 8/10.
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