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- This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for Africans.
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Mandabi. Shot primarily in Wolof, this second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first ever made in an African language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for the inhabitants of his home continent.
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This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for Africans.
Jun 9, 2021 · Mandabi – the first feature made in the Wolof language – has been remastered in 4K with StudioCanal’s partners at the French postproduction company VDM, scanned from the original 35mm interpositive. The sound too has been remastered from badly damaged archive footage.
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This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step toward the realization of the trailblazing Senegalese filmmaker’s dream of creating a cinema by, about, and for Africans. After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall...
The Criterion Collection presents Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi (The Money Order) on a dual-layer Blu-ray disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition encode is sourced from a new 4K restoration performed by StudioCanal. A 35mm interpositive was the source for the restoration. It's easy to see a lot of work into this, dam...
There is a harshness to the monaural single-channel PCM soundtrack, clearest in the film’s music, but voices are strong and the track is free of any notable damage.
Criterion packs in a few interesting supplements. They first include a 30-minute introduction by scholar Aboubakar Sanogo, along with a 19-minute interview between author and screenwriter Boubacar Boris Diop and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané. Both features go over the importance of the film and the impact it made (it’s po...
A thoughtfully put together special edition with an impressive looking restoration. Highly recommended. BUY AT:
In 1968, Sembène's Wolof-language satire Mandabi became the first feature film shot entirely in an African language. Mandabi marked a departure from Sembène's previous films, which required him to subvert the coproduction requirement of French dubbing by using French voiceover as a symbol of colonial violence.
Jun 18, 2021 · The first film made in the Wolof language was an act of defiance in a country that spoke Wolof or Arabic but where French remained the official language.
Jul 22, 2021 · Adapted from his own novella of the same name, this funny, trenchant, tragic satire was the first African film to be made in colour and the first in an indigenous African language (Wolof). Mandabi tells the story of Ibrahima Dieng (Makhouredia Gueye), an unemployed man living on the outskirts of Dakar.
