Mandabi

Name: Mandabi
Genre: Drama
Released: March 26, 1970
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Christoph Colomb, Farba Sarr, Isseu Niang, Makhouredia Gueye, Mamadou Cisoko

1970

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Comptoir Français du Film Production (CFFP) | Release Date: March 26, 1970 | Not Rated

Starring: Christoph Colomb, Farba Sarr, Isseu Niang, Makhouredia Gueye, Mamadou Cisoko, Mouss Diouf, Mustapha Ture, Serigne N'Diayes, Thérèse Bas, Ynousse N'Diaye

Summary: A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.

Director: Ousmane Sembene

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Roger Greenspun

As a comedy dealing with life's miseries, it displays a controlled sophistication in the telling that gives it a feeling of almost classic directness and simplicity. Read full review

Tara Brady

Mandabi’s playful grammar and arresting camerawork are as exciting and politically charged as anything that emerged from the contemporaneous Nouvelle Vague. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mandabi features an excellent performance from Guèye, who is innocent and culpable all at once. This is gentle, walking-pace cinema that leads us by the hand from vignette to vignette, from scene to scene, presented to us with ingenuous simplicity and calm. Read full review

Selome Hailu

Sembène achieves this balance of tone with a mix of absurd and biting dialogue and a modest mise en scène. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Through it all Sembène maintains a steady, humanist touch. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A keen satire, MANDABI is not only Sembene's first comedy and first film in color, but also his first in Wolof, the language spoken by most Senegalese people. Its critique of a postcolonial state is much more narrowly focused than those of his earlier short films, and, as the first Senegalese film to be distributed commercially in Senegal, it more than got its point across. Read full review

Jonas Mekas

Honest but stupid. [19 Mar 1970, p.54]

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