Mossane
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / women, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.
Our read · Mossane (1996) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · women · village entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Mossane
What watching it is actually like.
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