Bamako

Bamako (2006)

  • 85% of critics liked it
    (54 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (2,212 ratings)

Abderrahmane Sissako wrote and directed this offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they've done in the Third World. Mele (Aissa Maiga) is an attractive Malian lounge singer married to Chaka (Tiecoura Traore), though their… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By
Abderrahmane Sissako
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 2, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Mar 25, 2008
New Yorker Films

Critic Reviews

  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    If Jean-Luc Godard had kept his sense of humor, he might be making engaging movies like Bamako.

  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

    [An] intimate, urgent and wildly imaginative indictment of post-colonial economic policies in Africa.

  • Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle

    Trial movies can be painful, but Bamako is a powerful polemic leavened with moments of beauty and humor.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.

  • John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

    A strange and often haunting little film.

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    [font=Century Gothic]"Bamako" is set in the capital of Mali where a trial is being argued in the case of the African peoples vs the World Bank, alleging the World Bank through its usurious loans keeps Africa in a state of perpetual poverty. But after the opening arguments… More

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