Ousmane Sembene - Moolaadé (2004)

Winner of Un Certain regard & Special Mention, Ecumenical Jury
(Cannes Film Festival 2004)

The Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène is routinely referred to as the father of postcolonial African cinema, but he is a patriarch whose feminist sympathies have been evident from the beginning. Throughout his career, from "Black Girl" (1966), which is thought to be the first feature film ever made by a director from sub-Saharan Africa, to "Faat Kine" (2000), he has frequently explored the hardships facing African women and their capacity for resilience and heroism.



In his new film, "Moolaadé," the women of a small village in Burkina Faso rebel against female genital mutilation, a subject that may repel squeamish viewers. That would be a shame, not only because of the intrinsic importance of the subject, but because to skip "Moolaadé" would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest.



While he does not minimize pain and cruelty, neither does Mr. Sembène traffic in harshness or despair. And while this film is troubling, it is also infused with a remarkable buoyancy of spirit. It is, at heart, a strike movie -a kind of West African "Norma Rae" - with startling (but entirely appropriate) elements of musical comedy blended in, all of it conveyed with an eye for the nuances of character and social life that is almost Chekovian.



At 81, having organized unions, written novels and directed a handful of immortal films, Mr. Sembène surely has nothing left to prove, but "Moolaadé" may well be his autumnal masterpiece - a rousingly political film that is a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.
(The New York Times)







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