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Xala. 1975. An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him.
May 21, 2024 · The first and most devastating of these films, Emitaï, is set in 1942, in Sembène’s native Casamance region, and tracks a moment of anticolonial resistance. During World War II, France forcibly conscripted Africans into its army, a policy that was accompanied by a system of heavy taxation.
Mandabi (1968) Website. Official website. Ousmane Sembène (French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 [ 1 ] – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".
A manual laborer turned union activist turned acclaimed writer turned filmmaker, Sembène saw cinema as the ultimate vehicle for his searing social critiques, delivering caustic indictments of colonialism, ruling-class corruption, religion, and the patriarchy in landmark works like BLACK GIRL (recently named one of the greatest films of all time in Sight and Sound magazine’s poll), MANDABI ...
Jan 31, 2023 · As we celebrate his 100th year and rediscover his films, we can gain a better understanding of Sembène, and the themes of his work, by looking at the turns his life took that led him to cinema ...
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Jun 9, 2024 · The Criterion Collection presents three groundbreaking films by the "father of African cinema," Ousmane Sembène, in a box set titled Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène. Across three dual-layer discs, the set showcases the films Emitaï , Xala , and Ceddo , all meticulously restored in new 4K transfers sourced primarily from scans of the original negatives.
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The series features nearly all of Sembène's films, including Janus Films' recent 4K restorations of Mandabi (1968), Emitaï (1971), Xala (1975) and Ceddo (1977). Like Sergei Eisenstein, the director he considered most important, Sembène rejected socialist realism in favor of a cinematic language both didactic in function and supple in style.
