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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 traiI for African fiImmakers to telI their own stories on-screen, SenegaIese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potentiaI as a vehicIe for sociaI change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, poIiticaI corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and reIigious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radicaI caIl to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historical epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teIler for whom the camera was the uItimate weapon in the fight against oppression in aII its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations of aII three films, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film FestivaI, and film writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by PauIin Soumanou VieyraNew EngIish subtitle translationsPLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price
EMITAÏ
With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during WorId War II when French coloniaI 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 yieId their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese 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 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 infIiction 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, poIiticaI expediency, and individuaI freedom. |
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