Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty)
Canon Fodder Episode 68
This week, Daniel and Corky hit the road again with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki. Blending French New Wave style, African oral traditions and bursts of surrealism, Mambéty’s remarkable debut follows two young outcasts scheming to escape Senegal for the promise of Paris. But did your hosts get swept up in the journey, or did this influential first film leave them stranded short of the Canon?
TOUKI BOUKI FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #66
World premiere: May 1973 (Cannes Film Festival)
IMDB synopsis: “Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.”
CLIPS & CLIPPINGS
NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE
Born in Flames (1983; Directed by Lizzie Borden)
IMDB synopsis: “Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government.”
Our review of Born in Flames comes out Tuesday, Sep. 1!
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