Orson Welles’ follow up to Citizen Kane was this masterful account of an aristocratic Indianapolis family's decline, deploying dazzlingly expressive mise-en-scène to evoke the look and feel of a vanished era.
“Inflects grim drama with an edge of carnival humor.”—The New York Times
“Life made me a whore, and now I’ll make the world my brothel.” So proclaims Linguère Ramatou (Ami Diakhate), an aging, affluent woman who returns to her impoverished Senegalese village with a diabolical proposition for the townspeople who banished her: kill her long-ago love Dramaan Drameh (Mansour Diouf), the man who impregnated and abandoned her, and receive a fortune. Adapting Friedrich Dürrenmatt's celebrated play The Visit, Mambéty’s follow-up to his classic Touki Bouki is a surrealist parable full of spellbinding images and caustic humor.
“Inflects grim drama with an edge of carnival humor.”—The New York Times
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
102min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In Wolof with English subtitles
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General Admission: $16
Members: $8
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