1992 · drama · senegalese · african
Guelwaar
Directed by Ousmane Sembène1h 55m1992
Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor.
Our read: Guelwaar (1992) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · senegalese · african entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / senegalese, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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