Bamako (2007) Critic Reviews
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As demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of subsistence called "Waiting for Happiness," Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate.Read the full review
The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.Read the full review
Bamako is something different: a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.Read the full review
Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.Read the full review
Rather miraculously, picture succeeds in painlessly educating its viewers about global politics and economics while it describes contemporary Africa with freshness and clarity.Read the full review
A powerful polemic leavened with moments of beauty and humor.Read the full review
No one can deny the powerful reality that weaves its way through Bamako.Read the full review
The film feels oddly slack and inert, livened only by testimony better suited to another forum.Read the full review
