February 29, 2008
This is a tragic, important film. RIP Ousmane Sembene.
Aminata Dao, Dominique T Zeida, Dominique Zeida
Set in a small African village, four young girls face a ritual "purification" flee to the household of Colle' Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter fr...( read more
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November 17, 2006Interesting, makes us think about actual problems in Africa, and it brings us to think about the traditions and the moderns aspects of life, which should we take or let go...
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November 5, 2009LETTERBOX. Tiene mucho poder y lo dosifica bien. Está filmada con gran ritmo y cuidado. Aún así, el desenlace pierde verosimilitud al intentar asumir un tono triunfalista. / Has much power as administers it well. It is filmed with great rhythm and much care. Even so, the ending l...( read more)
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August 14, 2009My first Sembene film. He has such a deft, light, masterful touch. He can't be hurried or pressured to force anything, even when the subject is female mutilation. If he were in 1930s Hollywood, he would have made movies like Lubitsch.
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May 4, 2009I fell asleep. Though topically interesting, it's quite boring. I suggest reading on the subject or hearing a lecture rather than watching this film.
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March 7, 2009Director Ousmane Sembene is a leading figure in African cinema. In the extras which accompany the DVD of this film he explains the problems he faced making it. "Moolaade" deals with a nightmare subject - female circumcision - which is described in the film as a 'purification' cer...( read more)
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November 28, 2008Bigger than it should be, but a very nice, interesting and horifing view on women's mutilation...
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June 30, 2008Art as a catalyst for change...the story is gripping, the characterizations are memorable, and the subject matter resonates. It's a film about different manifestations of COURAGE.
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June 30, 2007it's a drama about the widespread African custom of female genital multilation.
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January 25, 2007This is Ousmane Sembene's most powerful film. It sheds light on an unjust practice that Muslim women have endured for countless centuries. Female genital mutilation is just another abuse that women have suffered at the hands of their husbands. And all of this supposedly is writte...( read more)
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