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Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 19, 2023 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Touki Bouki remains (Mambéty's) masterpiece - a mischievous yet haunted exploration of post-independence Senegal that deftly ...
Touki Bouki. Nice, the Riviera, Corsica. Not tourist destinations, but slang for sections of the Dakar slums. They are home to the student Anta, daughter of a market woman. Her boyfriend, Mory, owns a motorcycle that sports a set of cow-horns. They dream of moving to Paris, that “corner of paradise” lauded in song by Josephine Baker.
8 de may. de 2021 · Touki bouki. With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque fantasy-drama, the disaffected young lovers Anta and Mory, fed up with Dakar, long to escape to the glamour and comforts they imagine ...
TOUKI BOUKI. Directed by. Djibril Diop Mambéty. Senegal, 1973. Drama. 90. Synopsis. Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow’s skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal’s capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise ...
17 de jun. de 2018 · Difficult to see since its initial release in 1973, Touki Bouki re-entered circulation 10 years ago when it was restored as part of the World Cinema Project by Martin Scorsese, who called it “a ...
5 de feb. de 2020 · Touki-Bouki, Mambéty’s first full-length feature, appeared in 1973, winning the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes and the Special Jury Award at the Moscow Film Festival; the budget for Touki-Bouki was $30,000, partly funded by the Senegalese state, but the film was, perhaps unsurprisingly, received critically in Dakar.
Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Touki Bouki (1973) - Djibril Diop Mambéty on AllMovie - Two youngsters attempt to escape what they…
