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Bamako
2006
Synopsis
Caught in the stranglehold of debt, Africa fights to survive. As its nations face economic disaster, representatives from different corners of society speak against institutions of global capital. They hold a trial in a Bamako courtyard, where the neighborhood’s inhabitants come and go.
Editorial
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.
