On the surface, Atlantique tells a familiar story of lovers kept apart by circumstances beyond their control, but Mati Diop’s astonishing debut quickly reveals cascading depths of feelings, meanings, gorgeous visuals, and hypnotic sounds. Its dimensions of strangeness foretell the return of a repressed Senegalese people living in the shadow of a huge, futurist luxury tower.  The film evolves into a docu-supernatural mystery that evokes themes of the refugee crisis, the exploitation of the poor, and the fetishization of virginity, purity, and marriage.