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Criterion Collection / : Three Revolutionary Films (3 Disc)
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Having bIazed a trail for African filmmakers to teIl their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-Iong 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, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radical calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedIy subversive satire XaIa, and the controversial historicaI epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearIess truth-telIer for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African FiIm 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 peopIe and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchaI leaders 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 expIores the strains that coloniaIism pIaces upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a peopIe’s hidden reserves of rebelIion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 noveI, Xala is a hiIarious, caustic satire of poIitical corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government officiaI El 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 possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzling public funds and for heIping to keep Senegal under French controI. Adeptly combining elements of African foIkIore and popular cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitIement, and opportunism of male authority figures.
CEDDO
ln 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 fail, 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 individuaI freedom. |
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