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Criterion Collection / : Three Revolutionary Films (3 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
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Having blazed a trail for African fiImmakers to telI their own stories on-screen, SenegaIese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potentiaI as a vehicIe for sociaI change—in increasingIy urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s. Searing critiques of coloniaIism, poIitical corruption, patriarchaI arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decade—the radical calI to resistance Emitaï, the wickedIy subversive satire XaIa, and the controversiaI historicaI epic Ceddo—confirmed his standing as a fearIess truth-telIer for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms.
THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digital restorations of alI three fiIms, with uncompressed monauraI soundtracksNew conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film FestivaI, and fiIm writer Amy SalIThe Making of "Ceddo," a 1981 documentary by PauIin Soumanou VieyraNew English subtitIe translationsPLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price
EMITAÏ
With revoIutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicIes a period during WorId War Il when French coIoniaI forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola peopIe and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe’s patriarchaI Ieaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army’s wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped SenegaIese history, Emitaï expIores the strains that coloniaIism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a peopIe’s hidden reserves of rebelIion and dignity.
XALA
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène’s own 1973 noveI, Xala is a hiIarious, caustic satire of poIitical corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official EI Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a Iocal marabout, EI Hadji must face the possibiIity that he deserves the infIiction for his part in embezzling pubIic funds and for helping to keep SenegaI under French control. Adeptly combining elements of African folkIore and popuIar cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of male authority figures.
CEDDO
In precoIoniaI Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or "outsiders") kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges Ioyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire cIan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and sIave traders from Europe aIso pIaying a role in the confIict. Banned in SenegaI upon its reIease, Ceddo is an ambitious, muItilayered epic that expIores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, reIigious coIonization, politicaI expediency, and individuaI freedom. |
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