A passionate, challenging drama from the fine Mauritian writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako.
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02/14/07
Bamako (2006)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:45
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A courtroom drama and a portrait of everyday Mali life, Bamako approaches both subjects with equal skill and success.
Theatrical Release:Feb 14, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: The life of a troubled couple from a town in Mali is the focus of director Abderrahmnane Sissako’s BAMAKO. While the husband, Chaka, is out of work, Mele is barely scraping by as a singer in a... [More]
Starring: Danny Glover, Aissa Maiga, Tiecoura Traore, Maimouna Helene Diarra
Director: Abderrahmnane Sissako
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Reviews for Bamako
Top CriticBamako is a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.
02/14/07
Top CriticBamako puts nothing less than economic injustice on trial, arguing the guilt of the World Bank, the IMF, and the entire apparatus of First World economic domination for the crime of African oppression.
02/13/07
Profoundly in context with the world as it is in its acute hour of human need, in response to the urgency of the critical historical moment.
02/06/07
While worthy, Bamako suffers somewhat fromits structure. Some of the testimony becomes so complicated that unless you are an expert or really truly versed on the subject, you just might tune out (as I found myself doing on occasion).
02/02/07
Bamako ends pessimistically, which is understandable since it carries a continent on its shoulders.
11/29/06
Very important, very impressive.
10/28/06
It's surprisingly moving, funny, tragic, strange and undogmatic.
10/06/06
Top CriticA gritty and gutsy examination of how African nations are suffering incredible hardships and poverty under the boots of Western globalization policies.
10/02/06
After the resonant and lyrical experience of Sissako's criminally unseen Waiting for Happiness, which could have been an alternate title for Bamako, this new film represents a colossal downgrade.
09/26/06
By all accounts the year's best African film.
09/23/06
Rather than detract from the seriousness of the issues, Sissako’s light touch encourages a deeper level of engagement.
09/23/06
Writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako is to be admired for not giving up on a film that features many African voices that do cry out to be heard.
05/26/06
Rather miraculously, pic succeeds in painlessly educating its viewers about global politics and economics while it describes contemporary Africa with freshness and clarity.
05/25/06
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