Touki Bouki/Redes (Blu-Ray)
Touki Bouki/Redes (Blu-Ray)
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In "Touki Bouki," Mory and his girlfriend Anta imagine an escape from the difficult life they share in Dakar. Paris is their destination, and like the heroes of French New Wave films, they are utterly alienated from their surroundings. A series of adventures ensues as they plot ways to raise money for their trip, but only one can face up to the reality that awaits them. In French with English subtitles. Djibril Diop Mambety---Senegal---1973---85 mins. Early in his career, the Austrian-born future Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel the politically and emotionally searing Redes. In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real- life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers. A singular coming together of talents, Redes, commissioned by a progressive Mexican government, was cowritten and gorgeously shot by the legendary photographer Paul Strand. In Spanish with English subtitles. Emilio Gomez Muriel/Fred Zinnemann--Mexico--1936--59 mins. NOTE: This rental is a BLU-RAY disc and requires a BLU-RAY player to operate.

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  | jrderr#1

A very beatufiul film which is nevertheless often difficult to follow. A petty thief and his college student girlfriend become fed up with life in post-colonial Senegal and decide to find a way to escape to Paris through a series of scams. The film features many beautiful shots of the savannah and the ocean and a lot of Eisensteinian moments (such as shots of cattle being slaughtered a la "Strike"). I did find the film's subtext which equates homosexuality with government corruption a bit disturbing

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