Bamako
PG
In partnership with Leeds Arts University
“As demonstrated in his previous film, a plangent snapshot of subsistence called "Waiting for Happiness," Sissako is a poet, and the filmmaking in this new picture is stuff of a deserving laureate.”
Boston Globe
“The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighbourly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.”
Entertainment Weekly
“One reason Bamako feels like a blast of sanity is that the theoretical debates about the state of the world, particularly Africa and more particularly Mali, are only half of its agenda. The other half, broadly speaking, is the life of everyday Africans.”
Chicago Reader
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