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
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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
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Alternately wise and very funny in its treatment of tribalism and in its grasp of neocolonial corruption.
05/24/03
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Through 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
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