This film can be appreciated simply as a deeply moving, beautifully acted, visually stunning folk story of love, betrayal and redemption. But it can also be read as an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to reconcile or negotiate traditional and modern sensibilities, a film whose ambiguities are often as fascinating as its certainties.
Senegal; produced and directed by Mansour Sora Wade; in Lébou with English subtitles; 1 hour, 30 minutes