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Xala
(The Curse, 1974) Animal Farm in Africa, as fiftyish fat cat El Hadji Abdoukadr Beye enjoys a flourishing import business, two wives (traditional and Westernized), and a white Mercedes - and now he's appointed to the Chamber of Commerce. Time to add that third wife; but on the wedding night he fails to rise to the occasion - could he be the victim of a xala?
Sembene's knowing comedy is a savagely funny satire of the new post-independence ruling class that, despite government censorship, broke Senegalese box office records and hit its targets where they lived. ("In the first three months after the opening, Mercedes owners showed up on foot." - Sembene.) "The actors are wonderful, especially the women who play the first two wives - ladies of magisterial personality, social shrewdness and sexual pride.
The wedding sequence makes the one in The Godfather look like a wedding party at McDonald's. Sembene is the African Molière."
Added: June 21st 2002
Reviewer: Paul
Score:  
Hits: 2076
Language: english
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