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Bamako DVD, 2006

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One of the year’s stand-out world cinema releases, writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako’s live-wire polemic unfolds around a courtyard in Mali, where the African people have brought a (fictional) class action lawsuit against the World Trade Organisation. Big questions about poverty and debt cancellation are interspersed with funny, zappy vignettes illustrating day-to-day African life: a wedding procession passes through, one village elder stages a vocal protest, while some heavy-duty testimony pertaining to the International Monetary Fund is almost drowned out by a toddler’s squeaky slippers.

Any other courtroom would have these interlopers removed, but Bamako subscribes to a view of democracy where everybody gets heard. The approach risks seeming flippant – there’s a momentary cowboy spoof starring Danny Glover – but Sissako gets the prosecution’s key facts over loud and clear, and without having to rely on the increasingly popular device of having white Westerners break the bad news to us gently. Never preachy, always colourful, this beguiling, one-of-a-kind picture announces a filmmaker capable of flicking effortlessly between styles and substance, like a Godard out of Africa.

 

Mike McCahill on 13th June 2007
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Film Information

Director - Abderrahmane Sissako

Produced - 2006

Main Language - French with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - African Film

Cast - Danny Glover, Elia Suleiman, Aïssa Maïga, Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: PG Publisher: Artificial Eye Region: 2
Length: 113 mins Aspect: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen Cat No: ART341DVD
Format: DVD Colour Subtitles: English

 

 

DVD Extras

  • Interview with director Abderrahmane Sissako and Danny Glover
  • Sissako biography.

 

 

Film Description

The World Bank and the Intentional Monetary Fund are put on trial in an small African homestead in this searching blend of drama and documentary. The trial is fictional but the witnesses are real, and amidst the pleas and testimonies, life goes on for a young African singer and her family. Featuring special appearances by Elia Suleiman and Danny Glover (who was also a producer of the film), Bamako mixes drama with parable, and challenges the conventional depiction of African poverty and Western guilt.

 

 

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