Touki Bouki November 19, 2010

The second in our series of selections from the World Cinema Foundation, Touki Bouki is a bold statement from a singular figure of Francophone African cinema, its striking montage, cinematic flourishes and playful characterizations indebted to Eisenstein and Godard, and its story and milieu distinctly rooted in the Senegalese landscape of the early 1970s. Lovers Moury and Anta pursue their dream of reaching an idealized Paris, engaging in theft and deception to pay their way. Their comic misadventures and youthful fantasies play out amidst a hybrid society of pastoral and swiftly modernizing cultures.

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