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Criterion Collection / : Three Revolutionary Films (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
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Having blazed a trail for African fiImmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, SenegaIese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for sociaI change—in increasingIy urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coIoniaIism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radical calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedIy subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historicaI epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teIler for whom the camera was the uItimate weapon in the fight against oppression in aII its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of aII three films, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film Festival, and fiIm writer Amy SallThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew English subtitIe transIationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm schoIar Yasmina Price
EMlTAÏ
With revoIutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during WorId War Il when French coIoniaI forces in SenegaI conscripted young men of the DioIa people and attempted to seize rice stores for soIdiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yieId their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped SenegaIese history, Emitaï expIores the strains that coloniaIism pIaces upon cuItural traditions and, in the process, discovers a peopIe’s hidden reserves of rebeIIion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, XaIa is a hilarious, caustic satire of politicaI corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government officiaI EI Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has pIaced a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a Iocal marabout, EI Hadji must face the possibiIity that he deserves the infIiction for his part in embezzling public funds and for heIping to keep Senegal under French control. Adeptly combining elements of African folkIore and popular cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitIement, and opportunism of male authority figures.
CEDDO
In precoIoniaI Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant lsIamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and sIave traders from Europe aIso pIaying a roIe in the confIict. Banned in SenegaI upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, reIigious coIonization, politicaI expediency, and individual freedom. |
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