Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Christoph Colomb, Moustapha Toure, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop. Title from screen credits. Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features; introduction from 2013 by the Film Foundation's founder and chair, Marint Scorsese; interview from 2013 with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako; interview program from 2012 featuring musician Wasis Diop and filmmaker Mati Diop, Mambéty's brother and niece, respectively; Contras' city, a 1968 short film by Mambéty.
Summary:
"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 France has to offer, but their plan is confounded by obstacles both practical and mystical. Alternately manic and meditative, Touki Bouki has an avant-garde sensibility characterized by vivid imagery, bleak humor, unconventional editing, and jagged soundscapes, and it demonstrates Mambéty's commitment to telling African stories in new ways"--Container.
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