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9 September 1993 (Netherlands) morePlot:
A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village's... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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High praise for a truly accomplished film. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Ami Diakhate | ... | Linguere Ramatou |
| Djibril Diop Mambéty | ||
| Mansour Diouf | ... | Dramaan |
| Calgou Fall | ... | The Priest |
| Faly Gueye | ... | Mme. Drameh |
| Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye | ... | The Mayor |
| Issa Ramagelissa Samb | ... | The Professor |
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USA:110 min | Argentina:110 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)Country:
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A stunning adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt's coldly brilliant play, The Visit, HYENES (hyenas) actually improves on the story by transposing the action to a Senegalese village. A fabulously wealthy old woman, who was born in the village but run out in disgrace as pregnant youth, returns and promises the villagers a fortune on one condition: that they kill the man who ruined her, an aged man who is the town's popular, good-natured grocer.
By moving the story from Durrenmatt's European setting to a dirt-poor African village, all the tensions are heightened, and the director Mambety sets the huge issues in high relief against the desert backdrop: justice, betrayal, revenge, guilt, greed (or need?), loyalty, and charity are played out in a searing (and searingly beautiful) desert, filmed with the grace of Bergman and written with the wryness of Bunuel. There are no good guys. It's up to you if there are bad guys. Everyone is a predator.