When a man’s best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have been deported to Mali.

Black.Light.1994.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
Size: 	1.64 GiB
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Resolution: 	694x408 ~> 725x408
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https://nitro.download/view/D5AB21315929C97/Black.Light.1994.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Med Hondo – Lumière noire AKA Black Light (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Arguably an outgrowth of Soleil Ô, Les Bicots-nègres analyses the living conditions of African migrant workers in France in the mid-1970s. The film has the potential to be a classic case study of cinematic over-determination. It comprises seven sequences exploring, respectively, the conditions of possibility of cinematic representation in Africa (the opening sequence), historical dissonance through the dialectic of past and present (the post-credit sequence), a flashback to the eve of African independence (the imaginary garden party sequence), the predicaments of the post-colony, an assessment of the living condition of migrant workers and the actions taken to transform these conditions, and a final sequence in a circular mode, which returns to the new cinema.
In Les Bicots-nègres, Med Hondo engages the dual front of cinema and history through the production of what might be referred to as an indocile image. In the cinema of Med Hondo, the indocile image purports to do, undo and sometimes outdo both cinema and history.
Formally agnostic, it rejects the false choice between documentary and fiction by embracing both in full equanimity. Dissenting from the implicit injunction against the pedagogic in cinema (“if you have a message, send it through Western Union”), it seeks to creatively muster its discreet charm and deploy it productively in an essayistic form, thereby rejecting efforts to marginalise it.
Committed to experimentalism, it displays an anticipatory quality, which paradoxically exposes the tyranny of the new and calls for the destruction of the old. Clear and cogent about its analysis of cinematic and historical dominance, it enrobes itself with the drape of time. Taking the shape of history itself, it makes history as dominance, the history of dominance, and the historical dominance of established modes of filmmaking tremble. It might be argued that some of the avenues it opened four decades ago are yet to be fully exploited or surpassed.
Aboubakar Sanogo

592MB | 1h 40m | 640×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E15A04D5FD7E68B/Les_bicots-negres_vos_voisins_(1974).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/FD0782D9331D2BB/Les_bicots-nègres_vos_voisins_(1974)_v4.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Med Hondo – Les Bicots-Nègres vos voisins (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The Mauritanian director Med Hondo’s bitterly insightful, artistically freewheeling 1970 film begins with an antic sketch of the European colonization that subjugated and impoverished Africans. It depicts, with sardonic fury, the adventures of an unnamed young African man (Robert Liensol) who arrives in Paris and, with naïve optimism, seeks his fortune among his colonizers. He considers himself at home in France, but soon discovers the extent of his exclusion from French society. Facing blatant discrimination in employment and housing, he and other African workers organize a union, to little effect; seeking help from African officials in Paris, he finds them utterly corrupt and unsympathetic. Making friends among France’s white population, he finds their empathy condescending and oblivious, and his sense of isolation and persecution raises his identity crisis to a frenzied pitch. Hondo offers a stylistic collage to reflect the protagonist’s extremes of experience, from docudrama and musical numbers to slapstick absurdity, from dream sequences and bourgeois melodrama to political analyses. Hondo’s passionate, wide-ranging voice-over commentary, addressing the hero in the second person, blends confession and observation, aspiration and despair, societal and personal conflicts. In French.
— Richard Brody, New Yorker

2.37GB | 1s 44m | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7880A99DE5C8AEB/Soleil.O.1967.BDRip.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Med Hondo – Soleil Ô AKA Oh, Sun (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Sarrouina (Keïta), a young warrior queen of the Azna tribe well-schooled in the arts of herbalism and warfare, leads her people to victory against a neighboring tribe. But the real trial of strength for her comes when the French army marches south to widen its colonial grip on the African continent. The second half of the film focuses on the French, acidly but plausibly satirized as little tyrants whose megalomania swells in proportion with their failure to grasp the realities of the culture they are trying to crush. Grounded in careful historical research, Sarraounia is a superbly crafted and expansive film that strikes a celebratory, assertive tone.

1.45GB | 2h 01mn | 860×366 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/46E87CD3B9F042E/Sarraounia_(1986).mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/36854B164020D03/Sarraounia_(1986).part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/EBC39D5B6C7C50C/Sarraounia_(1986).part2.rar

Language:Dioula, French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

The post Med Hondo – Sarraounia (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

One of Hondo’s enduring masterpieces, West Indies is a stunning widescreen musical that takes place entirely on a single set – a giant slave ship that symbolizes the triangular relationship between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean – as it explores the parallels between the forced migration of the Atlantic slave trade and the contemporary migration of Afro-Caribbean subjects to former colonial metropoles. In a breathtaking display of virtuosity, Hondo deftly uses an array of filmic techniques (a vertically oriented mise en scène, dexterous tracking shots, beautifully orchestrated long takes) to explore four centuries of history within his single location, signalling temporal shifts through fluid camera movements and sumptuous staging; meanwhile, the remarkable range of musical styles, witty, poignant, and rousing lyrics, and brilliant choreography dazzle the senses and invite the spectator to join in the struggle to transform the world. –Aboubakar Sanogo

Said Hondo: “I wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark. I wanted to show that each people on earth has its own musical comedy, its own musical tragedy and its own thought shaped through its own history”.

1.79GB | 1 h 56 min | 716×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/72DB4FD401C9A5A/West.Indies.1979.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/DCFBD7A7E66BCF0/West.Indies.1979.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French

The post Med Hondo – West Indies (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.