Most of the film consists of meetings between different factions and groups, all conducted according to ancient tribal customs.
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10/22/07
Ceddo (1977)
67 %
Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 4 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6/10
Genre: Foreign Films
Director: Ousmane Sembene
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Ousmane Sembene's 1977 Senegalese film was attacked for daring to depict life in precolonial Africa as something less than paradisiacal.
10/22/07
Top Critic
Banned in Senegal on an absurd technicality which is merely the tip of an iceberg of threats posed by a film which picks at the scab of many of Senegal's current sores.
06/24/06
Only twice, in fantasy sequences, does Mr. Sembene allow himself the imaginative film maker's freedom to distort history to achieve some kind of dramatic truth. The rest is picturesque.
05/09/05
Top Critic
An interesting but failed attempt to shed some light on Senegal's history.
11/13/04
Micro-epic from Senegal. The film is weak on style, acting, and pacing, but has a really good story.
11/13/04
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