Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.

“Le film commence par la voix off de Souleymane Cissé, cinéaste malien, une voix qui dit “je” dans une très belle langue, poétique et convaincante. Pendant près d’une heure, un homme prend la parole au nom d’un continent. Les questions qu’il soulève sont politiques, métaphysiques, mais aussi esthétiques. Des extraits de Baara, Finye, et Yeelen sont intercalés dans le montage.”

“The film begins with the voice-over of Souleymane Cissé, a Malian filmmaker, a voice that says “I” in a very beautiful, poetic and convincing language. For almost an hour, a man speaks on behalf of a continent. The questions he raises are political, metaphysical, but also aesthetic. Excerpts from Baara, Finye, and Yeelen are interspersed throughout the montage.” (auto-translated)

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An adultery drama set in a bourgeois family in Bamako, Mali, where tensions are rife within the household: Mimi, bored with the polygamy and routine of marriage, wants to leave Issa. She has a lover, Abba. How will all three cope with this?

Richard Brody capsule review in The New Yorker:
From the standpoint of a romantic triangle in the Bamako beau monde, the Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé sketches a scathing portrait of a society that is rotting from the top down. The domineering, arrogant Mimi (Sokona Gakou), a well-to-do public-health bureaucrat, is having an affair with a younger man, Abba (Alou Sissoko), while married to Issa (Assane Kouyaté), a veteran filmmaker at work on a drama about an upper-class woman’s adulterous affair. As the story sprawls and lurches like a soap opera through the expansive arc of its melodramatic plot points, Cissé maintains patience, and even tenderness, for his self-deluding characters while depicting a wide array of underlying ills, including polygamous marriage, political corruption and cronyism, inflexible class hierarchies, and religious hypocrisy. The pathos of an artist too tangled in his personal agonies to look outside his gated courtyard, of a doctor who lives large without seeing a single patient, and of a politically connected playboy with an invisible source of income is heightened by Cissé’s stark visual contrast of chic white-walled villas with the roiling, unpaved roads just beyond. In Bambara.

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Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.

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Synopsis
A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women.
imdb.com

About the film
Ténin, the female protagonist of Den Muso (1975), is mute. She is raped by Sékou, her father’s former employee who resigned over pay and conditions. Cissé has said that Ténin’s muteness symbolizes the voicelesssnes of women African society and it is clear that when women in the film transgress the order of the male-dominated society in which they live, they have no right of reply. They are chastised with violent words that call into question the integrity of their bodies, and violent actions that force them to embody their transgressiveness and their subjugated position. Yet it is not just gender in Cissé’s films that causes the body to be squarely in the frame, for Sékou’s rape of Ténin can be read as the re-enactment of, and revenge form the exploitation of his own body in the factory run by Ténin’s father. It thus comments on class relations in post-Independence times…
Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures, edit. Kamal Salhi

Souleymane Cissé’s debut film contrasts urbanisation with tradition, and the conclusion is deliberately unhappy as if to express the incompatibility of the two. Den Muso is unusual for an African film in that it openly represents and discusses sexuality without passing judgment, but Cissé is careful not to lose sight of his message. Ténin is often captured in soft focus close-ups, and the silence of these sequences speaks far louder volumes than the verbose officiousness spouted by her parents. What the film lays bare more than anything else is the fact that Ténin’s inability to hear or speak is mostly extraneous, as her words would still have no power. Actress Dounamba Dany Coulibaly fulfils this challenging role with a quiet dignity, and it is almost impossible to remain unmoved by her performance in the film’s final scenes. Never dogmatic, Cissé’s film is an understated masterpiece.
Celluloid Breakfast.blogspot

… (his) early work, analytic but never schematic, realistic but full of vivid drama achieves the difficult feat of being both popular with African audiences and informative about contemporary Mali and revelatory to a wider public outside Africa…
Roy Armes, African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara

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