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So, have you seen ANY African films, films that were NOT

Posted by tinear on March 19, 2009 at 08:28:26:
made by foreigners and merely set in Africa?
You need to become aware of the masterly art of Mali director, Abderrhame Sissako.
"Bamako," filmed in the very courtyard in which the filmmaker grew up, has as its conceit a mock trial indicting the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for the monstrous debt which has crippled the country, forcing it to privatize water, railways, and public education--- to disastrous results.
Before you head for the exits expecting to be lectured to, let me say the film is more a poem than a polemic. There are people who could not be actors who explain what living is like under extreme poverty--- and why they place blame where they do--- but isn't it time we heard some voices besides those of Wolfowitz and others? Surely we can stand to hear a smattering from the other side?
Alongside the drama of the trial, Sissako weaves the story of a marriage which is collapsing.
This is the third Sissako film I've seen; I'd recommend first seeing the elegiac, "Waiting for Happiness," first.
Africa truly is the forgotten continent, its music being the only art which is well known. Sissako deserves to be as famous as any musician from that rich, mysterious continent.