Senegal
1973/35mm/88mins
SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 4.30 PM – Arc at NFSA
One of African cinema’s greatest masterpieces, the global meaning of this Senegalese take on REBEL WITHOuT A CAASE remerges in a new restoration from the World Cinema Foundation.
Herdsman Mory comes to Dakar for a better life. But riding around on his bull-skull-adorned motorcycle he realises even the capital isn’t big enough. He seduces a young university student and together they hustle and rob a wealthy gay man, then drive his stolen American car to the boat that will take them to Europe. Yet even then something holds them back… In his neo-colonial spin on the films of Nicholas Ray or Jean-luc Godard, Djibril Diop Mambéty made a classic of Senegalese cinema whose themes are still undiminished in their global meaning.
“Touki Bouki’s… portrayal of 1973 Senegalese society is not too different from today’s reality. Hundreds of young Africans die every day at the Strait of Gibraltar… all their hardships (still) find their voice in Djibril’s film:” – Souleymane Cissé
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Restored in 2008 at Cineteca di Bologna’s L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory, using original negatives provided by the director’s son, Teemour Diop Mambéty, and preserved at GTC, Paris.
Director Djibril Diop Cast Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Charlie Print Source World Cinema Foundation
