Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyenas (1992) screens at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) Thursday August 29th, The screening begin at 7:30. Facebook invite can be found Here.
Alongside fellow countryman Ousmane Sembène, director Djibril Diop Mambéty put Senegalese films on the world cinema map in the 1960s and beyond. Perhaps best known for his 1973 work Touki Bouki but making great short and feature films right up until his last one (1999’s The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun), Hyenas still manages to stand out as one of his best. An adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, in Hyenas we find the return of a woman named Linguere Ramatou to her hometown, for she has a score to settle that has haunted her since her teenage years.
In Wolof with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for...
Alongside fellow countryman Ousmane Sembène, director Djibril Diop Mambéty put Senegalese films on the world cinema map in the 1960s and beyond. Perhaps best known for his 1973 work Touki Bouki but making great short and feature films right up until his last one (1999’s The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun), Hyenas still manages to stand out as one of his best. An adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, in Hyenas we find the return of a woman named Linguere Ramatou to her hometown, for she has a score to settle that has haunted her since her teenage years.
In Wolof with English subtitles.
Admission is:
$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for...
- 8/25/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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