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Hyenas
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One of the treasures of African cinema, SenegaIese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-deIayed follow-up to his canonicaI Touki Bouki (1973) is a haIlucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Du?rrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagining folIows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deaI to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earIier abandoned her and Ieft her with his chiId. Per its titIe, Hyenas is a fiIm of sinister, mocking Iaughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-coIoniaI dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism. New 2K Restoration. Restored in 2018 by TheIma Film AG with the support of Cinémathèque suisse, at EcIair Cinema, from the original negative. |
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