Bamako (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Abderrahmane Sissako

Guionista:

Abderrahmane Sissako (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 octubre 2006 (France)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up...

Plot Keywords:

Africa | World Bank | Imf | Globalization | One Word Title

Premios:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

An Essay on African Social Injustice Lifts off the Page

Reparto

Aïssa Maïga	...	Melé
Tiécoura Traoré	...	Chaka
Maimouna Hélène Diarra	...	Saramba (as Hélène Diarra)
Balla Habib Dembélé	...	Falaï (as Habib Dembélé)
Djénéba Koné	...	La soeur de Chaka
Hamadoun Kassogué	...	Le journaliste
William Bourdon	...	Avocat partie civile
Mamadou Kanouté	...	Avocat de la défense (as Mamadou Konaté)
Gabriel Magma Konate	...	Le procureur (as Magma Gabriel Konaté)
Aminata Traoré	...	Témoin 2
Danny Glover	...	Cow-boy
Elia Suleiman	...	Cow-boy
Abderrahmane Sissako	...	Cow-boy (as Dramane Sissako)
Jean-Henri Roger	...	Cow-boy
Zeka Laplaine	...	Cow-boy

Duración:

115 min

País:

Mali | USA | France

Idioma:

Francés | Bambara

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bamako, Mali

Compañía:

Archipel 33

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: During the inset "Death in Timbuktu" "western," just before the first gunshot, a car can be seen moving between two buildings in the background. This, however, could be interpreted as intentional by the director, who was parodying non-Western interpretations of a "western" (other countries who partake in a love of westerns are Thailand and Cambodia). The child in this scene is also wearing a Nike shirt. The effect is to present the sort of low-budget, pulp film one might see in a television broadcast in Mali, while supplying a metaphor to the actual movie's plot.

An Essay on African Social Injustice Lifts off the Page

I'm hardly an expert on African economics, or social life, but this story whose political viewpoint is clearly African does what I think a movie should: it presents both sides of an issue -- in this case Mali's financial struggle and whether the World Bank and IMF should be blamed for the distress of the people.

Through a story that revolves around a court case, we see the stories of struggle of a wide range of people: mother, educator, escapee, unemployed person, and the average guy trying to make ends meet but having a difficult time.

For me, it clarified some of the issues and effects of fairly extreme poverty and lack of government prioritization for social services, health and education. It made the argument that a government may be at fault for selling out the country's future at the expense of developing a stronger base.

The bleakness, however does something bigger, or I hope it does -- I hope it gives strength to continue to fight as the producers, I think, would like.

See this. Africa is an important piece of the world and an important piece of the globalization of the world.