Bamako (2007)
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- Synopsis
- Abderrahmane Sissako wrote and directed this offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they've done in the Third World....
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- Starring
- Aïssa Maïga, Tiecoura Tracore, Hélène Diarra, Djénéba Koné, Habib Dembélé
- Director(s)
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Distributor(s)
- New Yorker
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 115 min.
Critic Reviews
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
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