The renowned Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene reconfirms his stature both as a master storyteller and a distinctively humanitarian artist.
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10/22/07
Guelwaar (1992)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.2/10
Genre: Dramas
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Reviews for Guelwaar
1 - 7 (sorted by date)
A funny, articulate and moving satire on the state of modern Africa.
05/24/03
A rich, vivid and universal portrait of a community that is revealed fully as it reacts to a crisis: a community that will be buried by the past if it cannot look to the future. There's a lesson here, and Mr. Sembene presents it with grace and ease.
05/24/03
Top CriticAlternately wise and very funny in its treatment of tribalism and in its grasp of neocolonial corruption.
05/24/03
Top CriticThrough Sembčne's wry attention to detail, we observe a great many things about village life that would otherwise pass unnoticed.
05/24/03
Sembene is hardly a didactic director and in fact invests his characters with such complexities that they are sometimes compromised.
05/24/03
Top CriticThe film is astonishingly beautiful.
05/24/03
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