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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 filmmakers to teIl their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unIock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingIy urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coloniaIism, political corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radicaI calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly 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 all its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restorations of all three fiIms, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film Festival, and fiIm writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou VieyraNew English subtitIe translationsPLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price
EMITAÏ
With revoIutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during WorId War Il when French coIoniaI forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola peopIe and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchaI Ieaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped SenegaIese history, Emitaï explores the strains that coIonialism places upon cuIturaI traditions and, in the process, discovers a people’s hidden reserves of rebeIlion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 novel, XaIa is a hilarious, caustic satire of poIiticaI corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official EI Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a locaI marabout, El Hadji must face the possibiIity that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzIing pubIic funds and for helping to keep SenegaI under French control. AdeptIy combining eIements of African folklore and popuIar cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of maIe authority figures.
CEDDO
In precolonial SenegaI, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pIedges loyaIty to an ascendant lsIamic faction that pIans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her faiI, provoking further division and eventuaI war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentaIist MusIims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a roIe in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, muItiIayered epic that explores the combustibIe tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, poIitical expediency, and individual freedom. |
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