Yeelen
by Souleymane Ciss?
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Actor: Aoua Sangare, Balla Moussa Keita, Issiaka Kane, Niamanto Sanogo, Soumba TraoreDirector: Souleymane Ciss?
Cinematographer: Jean-Michel Humeau
Cinematographer: Jean-No?l Ferragut
Producer: Souleymane Ciss?
Writer: Souleymane Ciss?
Editor: Andr?e Davanture
Editor: Dounamba Coulibaly
Editor: Jenny Frenck
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of Yeelen
Movie Review: Visually stunning, "Yeelen" is the most mystical and the most beautiful of African films...
Summary: 4 Stars
Its director, Souleymane Ciss?, from Mali in West Africa, has expressed his desire to make films which are uniquely African in style rather than imitating those of the United Sates or Europe... To this end he relies on stories, true and mythical, told by old men and handed down through the generations...
A young warrior (Issiaka Kane), threatened with death by his evil sorcerer father (Niamanto Sanogo), goes on a journey where he learns the power of magic... The film inhabits a world of dreams, but not the kind described by Dr Freud...
However, the movie's basis in a mystical tradition does not render it inaccessible to Western audiences... The structure of the narrative, based on a quest for magical knowledge and power, is clear and firm, and the consistent pattern of imagery based on the elements of fire, water, earth and light (the title translates as 'brightness') is not specific to African culture... The film's use of landscape, yellow spaces of the desert, is one of its chief glories... The performers too have great charm...
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