1995 · drama · tyranny · allegory
Guimba the Tyrant
Directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko1h 33m1995
The movie shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
Our read: Guimba the Tyrant (1995) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · tyranny · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / tyranny, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- inventive
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