Winner of the Prix Afrique en Creation at Cannes in 1992, this humorous and magical tale is filled with the sexual antics that enliven a working class neighborhood in Yaounde. A girl takes on the body of a man and learns the true sexual politics of the men around her. In addition, the woman who helps her achieve this transformation metamorphoses herself into Panka, a comic figure who can make a man’s penis disappear with a handshake.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo - Quartier Mozart.avi

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Container:  	AVI
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	637 MiB
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Resolution: 	640x384 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
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#1:  	2.0ch MP3 @ 122 kb/s
#2:  	2.0ch MP3 @ 136 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/758A1925372EAAD/Jean-Pierre_Bekolo_-_Quartier_Mozart.avi
https://nitro.download/view/30CC36BB40E71D9/Jean-Pierre_Bekolo_-_Quartier_Mozart.srt

Language(s):Dual French (audio AND director’s commentary)
Subtitles: English (only for film, no subs available for commentary)

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A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner, Les Saignantes is shot in high contrast lighting in what seems to be one long continuous night. The throbbing bass soundtrack of the film underscores the pulse of its rapid, jump-cut, music-video style editing. The characterization of the future city is a pessimistic allegory of the contemporary nation in Africa. By the year 2025, nothing has progressed; rather the country is still ruled by abusive power-drunk leaders who promise contracts to their mistresses; the police still take bribes and have no authority to actually investigate the crimes of the rich and powerful. Near the end of the film the smooth woman’s voiceover, which has performed the narrator’s function throughout the film, intones “We were already dead.” Re-watching the film with these words in mind, one wonders if the film, set a few years ahead in the future in 2025, is not the portrait of the spiritual aftermath of nation that has already died.

The entire culture seems to revolve around rituals of death. The W.I.P.’s become the ceremonies where political connections are made. At an elegant cocktail party or at home with Chouchou’s mother, the sophisticated revelers munch distractedly on maggots and drink what looks like radio-active embalming liquid from giant martini glasses. The mysterious women with their uniform of red headscarves, who cluster around Chouchou’s mother, flicker in and out like ghosts. The narrator makes it ambiguous whether any of the women in the film are spirits or ghosts, dead or alive. With the mysterious force mevoungou, referenced throughout the film, there seems to be little differentiation between the two.

Les saignantes (2005).mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 32mn
Size:	1.44 GiB
DXVA:	Incompatible
Minimum settings:	Not met
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Codec:	x264
Resolution:	812x480
Aspect ratio:	1.692
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 875 Kbps
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2.0ch MP3 @ 320 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/21B35A4A7DDE273/Les_saignantes_(2005).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English Hardsubs

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