La vie sur terre [videorecording] = Life on earth / Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo present a WinStar Cinema and Arte/Haut et Court presentation ; a film by Abderrahmane Sissako.
Cast: Abderrahmane Sissako, Nana Baby, Mahamadou Drame, Mohamed Sissako, Bourama Coulibaly, Keita Bina Gaoussoo. Special features: Scene access, filmographies. Originally broadcast as part of the television program 2000 Vu Par in 1998.
Summary:
A film about the significance of the start of the 21st Century for people still struggling to enter the 20th. Abderrahmane Sissako's solution was to improvise a 'fictional documentary' out of daily life in Sokolo, his father's village in Mali near the southeastern corner of Mauritania. He then overlaid these vignettes with readings from Aimé Césaire ... Behind all of this, he weaves the melancholy tones ["Folon"] of the great Malian tenor, Salif Keita and music by other artists.
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