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Elia Suleiman

“The relationship between the moment of truth that you capture and the moment of truth that the spectator captures is incredible. This is what I consider the godliness of communication.”

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    Bamako

    BAMAKO

    ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO Mali, 2006

    Abderrahmane Sissako gathers enormous debates into this riveting film, putting the world’s financiers on trial. Opposing monolithic forms of power, the writer-director breaks up his excoriating critique with self-reflexive frolicking—a mini spaghetti western!—and the lilting details of Malian life.

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