Senegalese master filmmaker Ousmane Sembene is in town to promote his latest film, MoolaadÈ, which screens at the NYFF and opens Friday. The Village Voice's J. Hoberman calls MoolaadÈ "the most richly entertaining movie anyone has ever made on the subject of female genital mutilation."
Tomorrow at noon, Sembene'll be interviewed by WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show.
Ousmane Sembene on The Leonard Lopate Show. Warning: listen around Russell Banks [WNYC]
MoolaadÈ reviewed by J. Hoberman [VV]
Choire Sicha shouts MoolaadÈ! in the NYT
Links and a post about Borom Sarret, Sembene's important first film, which was included in PS1's 2002 exhibit of contemporary African art and film, "The Short Century".
