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Sia, The Dream of the Python (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 3
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:May 24, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: After being chosen as the sacrifice to the Python God, Sia decides to escape her fate by running away.
Reviews for Sia, The Dream of the Python
As directed by Dani Kouyate of Burkina Faso, Sia lacks visual flair. But Kouyate elicits strong performances from his cast, and he delivers a powerful commentary on how governments lie, no matter who runs them.
Colorful and deceptively buoyant until it suddenly pulls the rug out from under you, Burkinabe filmmaker Dani Kouyate's reworking of a folk story whose roots go back to 7th-century oral traditions is also a pointed political allegory.
The stripped-down approach does give the film a certain timeless quality, but the measured pace and lack of dramatic inflection can also seem tedious.
The subtitled costume drama is set in a remote African empire before cell phones, guns, and the internal combustion engine, but the politics that thump through it are as timely as tomorrow.
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