 FESPACO 2009
"We need America," an official selection
12/02/2009
"We need America," Selection officielleLe Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (Fespaco), 2009 edition, which will take place in a few weeks, has retained in its selection official part "We need America," Koffi Kwahulé, directed by Sidiki Bakaba and produced by Ayala Bakaba Beugré Djepp interpreted by Cecile Pango and Michael Danon. This film version, whose realization is also signed by Sidiki Bakaba will compete in the TV-video section.
Sidiki Bakaba gives This magnificent work an attractive vision, reflecting the spirit amazingly creative, avant-garde or deliciously delirious its author:
" ; In the backdrop of a dilapidated shack in the ghetto moods burial of human bones, three characters try to mend what is in them bits of life, humanity and contradictions. They seem to have crossed a thousand lives and came after themselves. A wife Badibadi. A husband Topitopi. The friend of the couple: Opolo. And later, the wife of Opolo, the bride lookalike Badibadi; fourth person.
Psychedelic atmosphere, lively dialogue to speak of common sometimes thought. The story moves off on a routine case of bread. Succession said and unsaid. The trio collides. It binds and loosens connects.
Venus's past conduct as a silent film images of the early days of cinema, they are reborn in this and walk to a future hypothetical and hyperbolic.
This kind of subversion of codes radiating part of Koffi Kwahulé, the unreal mingles with reality. Badibadi, pregnant piss crude oil as it can disassemble and assemble his belly. They decide to tap the vein ...
But the unbridled quest for profit, man no longer counts. It is any object caught in the grip of the whirlwind of speculation, in a democracy as totalitarian regime, trapped in a culture hungry for information ... even sensational false.
Can this paradise of black gold fizzled. Badibadi dies and turns into a pot of orchids.
In the oil rush to the human mystery of the female orchid, it is not a . But for this new venture takes shape, it must become embedded in a country, a country of excess where the wildest dreams scrape the sky. So for the ingenious Opolo, the bride and Topitopi contemplating remarrying, the furrows of a new destiny emerge as the vertigo of an endless spiral, a vicious circle: they must therefore America.
With the development of the news, which has projected in recent months America at the forefront of media before, during and after l & rsquo ; election of the first American president of color, Barack Obama, the film version of "We need America" could not be more timely. It was with some delight that the festival FESPACO discover this wonderful work with different roles are encamped with gusto by young actors, steeped in talent and trained s Actors'Studio in Abidjan, School founded by Sidiki Bakaba Director General of the Culture Palace in Abidjan ..
Christian Kocani |
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