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Sunday 6 November at 5pm
Moolaadé
(15)
Dir. Sembene Ousmane
Senegal 2005
124 mins Subtitles
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Veteran Senegalese director Sembene here tackles the controversy
of female circumcision in a passionate drama set in a rural
village in Burkina Faso. When four little girls flee a purification
ceremony and 'the cut', they take refuge with Collie (Fatoumata
Coulibaly), a woman who refused to have her own daughter
circumcised. She casts a mystical protection (the Moolaadé
of the title) and a standoff follows. It is a warm hearted
and wryly observed take on village life.
"A movie about contemporary sexual
politics in which something very real is at stake"
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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Moolaade The film deals with an important subject – well acted and directed. However I have one difficulty with the film. I speak from personal experience as someone who visited Ethiopia regularly for four years and observed African village life. In Ethiopia these are mainly problem of young girls/women having fistula problems and being rejected as unclean. These issues are the dilemma of strong cultural tradition versus education, development and enlightenment. By using the group of {witches) in red uniforms as performers of the ritual – I think it moves the issue to a dilemma of good over evil – which is a negative approach to enlightenment. The people who deal with these issues are ordinary people living in normal conditions in Africa. Would anything have been lost from the picture without portraying things in this way? Ken Lamb by Ken Lamb
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