'My Father's Shadow' Review: Cannes' First Nigerian Movie Mixes Autobiography and Mystery

The line "I'll see you in my dreams" is repeated frequently in Akinola Davies Jr.'s "My Father's Shadow," the first film from a Nigerian director to earn a slot in the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. And in that line, perhaps, is the heart of a standout film. Dreams and ghosts figure heavily into the film, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival on Sunday. While on the surface the drama follows a day trip taken by two young boys and their father to the Nigerian capitol of Lagos, the film slides between reality and imagination, between the . . .