Mandabi
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Isseu Niang, Makhouredia Gueye, Serigne N'Diayes, Serigne Sow, Ynousse N'Diaye Director: Ousmane Sembene DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: French (Original Language); Wolof (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: New Yorker |
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Movie Reviews of Mandabi
Movie Review: Classic Critique of Neocolonial Senegal
Summary: 5 Stars
Ousmane Sembene, pivotal figure in West African cinema, draws a scathing and ironic portrait of bureaucracy and everyday life in post-independence Dakar, Senegal. He weaves a story of international labor migration (a street sweeper from Senegal in Paris), gender relations in polygyny, the relations between urban and rural relatives, brothers and sisters, and ordinary people with a bloated and corrupt cogernment bureaucracy -- all surrounding the innocent attempt by the street sweeper to send his mother (via his urban uncle in Dakar) a remittance in the form of a money order. Fabulous film: not to be missed!