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Skirt Power

Original title: Taafé Fanga
  • 19971997
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
60
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POPULARITY
557,383
104,560
Skirt Power (1997)
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A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
60
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
557,383
104,560
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    • Director
      • Adama Drabo
    • Writers
      • Adama Drabo(play)
      • Marion Keller(dialogue)
      • Léopold Togo(script)
    • Stars
      • Fanta Berete
      • Oumu Berthé
      • Yamadou Cissé
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    • Director
      • Adama Drabo
    • Writers
      • Adama Drabo(play)
      • Marion Keller(dialogue)
      • Léopold Togo(script)
    • Stars
      • Fanta Berete
      • Oumu Berthé
      • Yamadou Cissé
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    • 1User review
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

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    Fanta Berete
    • Yamènè
    Oumu Berthé
      Yamadou Cissé
      Kani Coulibaly
        Fanta Coulibary
        Bako Dagnon
        Sidy Diabate
        Nana Diabaté
        Chaka Diarra
        Konimba Diarra
        Maimouna Hélène Diarra
        • Timbé
        Mamadou Diarra
        Baniama Diawara
        Bouba Diawara
        Djeneba Diawara
        Assigue Dougnon
        Banegnou Dougnon
        Lala Drabo
        • Director
          • Adama Drabo
        • Writers
          • Adama Drabo(play) (screenplay)
          • Marion Keller(dialogue)
          • Léopold Togo(script)
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          Based on a Dogon legend.

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        "Skirt Power" works on many levels, in different ways for different audiences
        The title of this well-produced mythic story from Mali translates as "Skirt Power". For its domestic audience, the story is probably highly comical. For an audience in the industrialized world, the comic aspect is less important. It's a nice, well-told story with a very clear point: women deserve an equal say with men in the way their and their families lives are led. Taafé Fanga makes this simple though profound point by connecting contemporary reality with the collective memory of the not-so-distant past and from there to the mythic origins of the Dogon people and their culture of masks, dance and legend. The Dogon of course are one of the world's great mystery peoples, whose ancient cosmology is based on the 50-year cycle of the Star Sirius B - the existence of which was not discovered by Western Science until the 1960s.

        In any case, the drama revolves around a role reversal of the sexes, with men and women reversing their respective characteristic roles and mannerism. The really interesting aspect of this reversal for me was the way that each sex accepted its new role as a fait accompli; a nice commentary on the arbitrary nature of sex roles (in Mali and everywhere else).

        An added bonus to this charming film is the high production values - top-notch photography and editing, well-paced, beautiful. Not a perfect film by any means, but a strong production which can stand side-by-side comparison with a major studio release from any country.
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        • dmeltz
        • Nov 27, 2000

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        • Release date
          • March 4, 1999 (Israel)
        • Countries of origin
          • France
          • Germany
          • Mali
        • Languages
          • Kaado
          • Bambara
        • Also known as
          • Die Herrschaft der Röcke
        • Filming locations
          • Mali
        • Production companies
          • Atriascop Paris
          • C.N.P.C.
          • Taare Film
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          1 hour 42 minutes
        • Color
          • Color
        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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