Over at The New Yorker, Richard Brody chooses African cinema landmark
Touki Bouki as his movie of the week. In this vibrant portrait of 1970s Senegal, director Djibril Diop Mambéty “doesn’t stint on depicting the practicalities—economic, . . .
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