‘Dao’ Review: French-Senegalese Master Alain Gomis Builds a Swirling, Ecstatic Family Epic from One Wedding and a Funeral

Variety · 2026-02-14
‘Dao’ Review: French-Senegalese Master Alain Gomis Builds a Swirling, Ecstatic Family Epic from One Wedding and a Funeral

“Dao” opens with onscreen text defining its title as “a perpetual and circular movement which flows in everything and unites the world” — one way to articulate that famously intangible, widely traveled philosophical concept, and the one that works best for French-Senegalese directo