Faat Kiné

Intelligent yet easy-going masterpiece.

In every way a sunny film. Supremely affirmative, it ends with the funniest, sexiest close-up of the year.

Wildly entertaining and a visual delight.

Sembène is a far more adroit and elegant storyteller than many may be accustomed to seeing.

The situation is comic and yet quite serious, as are the ways in which language is used.

A youthful, and often funny, piece of filmmaking. You might never expect that its director is 73 years old.

Both politically intricate and genuinely hilarious, Faat-Kine is a story grounded in dichotomies.