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Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena)

1973

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop ...

6.5

405

Drama Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow's skull, and Anta, a university student, have met in Dakar, Senegal's capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa, they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise the money.

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"One of the greatest of all African films and almost certainly the most experimental. Beautifully shot and strikingly conceived"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It is full of local color of a sort not often seen in travelogues (...) Mambety mixes neo-realism and fantasy to create a mood of unease and aimless longing. The performances are good."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The touchstone of [Mambéty's] artistry is the emotional and even philosophical coherence of his vision"	POS
United Kingdom	Djia Mambu BBC	"45 years on, it deserves to be regarded as one of Africa’s finest films"	POS
United States	Paul Malcolm LA Weekly	"[It] crackles with the energy and vitality of a new idiom being born (...) A scrappy, rebellious exploration of place and identity"	POS

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