1982 · drama · political · youth
The Wind
Directed by Souleymane Cissé1h 40m1982
Two Malian teenagers, Bah and Batrou, from different backgrounds, meet at secondary school. Bah is the descendent of a great tribal chieftain. Batrous father, a provincial military governor, represents the new ruling power. The two teenagers are part of a generation that rejects the established order and challenges the society in which they live.
Our read: The Wind (1982) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · political · youth entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / political, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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