Bamako (Sissako, 2006): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm
This 35mm presentation is in the Big Screen Classics strand at BFI Southbank . The movie also screens on November 10th. Full details here.Chicago Reader review:
A large portion of this highly original 2006 feature from Mali by Abderrahmane Sissako (Life on Earth, Waiting for Happiness)
consists of a hearing devoted to the operations of the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund in Africa, with judge, black and white
lawyers, and witnesses all played by nonactors who’ve written their own
speeches, many of them angry. All this is set outdoors, in a backyard in
a poor section of Bamako, the capital of Mali, and the remainder of the
film is devoted to glimpses of everyday African life taking place
around this event. Sissako scrupulously avoids making any facile
connections between his two blocks of material, and his cast, even when
silent, are always eloquent.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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