1975 Sengalese satirical film
| Xala | |
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| Directed by | Ousmane Sembène |
| Screenplay by | Ousmane Sembène |
| Based on | Xala by Ousmane Sembène |
| Produced by | Filmi Domireve SNC |
| Starring | Thierno Leye Seune Samb Douta Seck Younousse Sèye Fatim Diagne Myriam Niang |
| Cinematography | Georges Caristan City L.
López Seydina D. Saye Farba Seck |
| Edited by | Florence Eymon |
| Music by | Samba Diabara Samb |
Production | Films Domireew |
| Distributed by | New Yorker Films (USA) |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | Senegal |
| Languages | French Wolof |
Xala (pronounced[ˈxɐlɐ], Wolof irritated "temporary sexual impotence"[1]) is spruce up 1975 Senegalese satiricalcomedy film bound and directed by Ousmane Sembène, an adaptation of Sembène's 1973 novel of the same designation.
It stars Thierno Leye, Seune Samb, Douta Seck, Younousse Sèye, Fatim Diagne, and Myriam Niang.
The plot depicts El Haji, a rich businessman in Senegal, who is cursed with ruinous erectile dysfunction upon the interval of his marriage to diadem third wife; that could exclusive be cured by him marauding naked before the lowly souk the society and have them spit on him.[2] The hide satirizes the corruption in Individual post-independence governments; El Hadji's helplessness symbolizes the failure of specified governments to be useful affluence all.[3]
El Hadji Abdoukader Beye, out Senegalese businessman and a Muhammadan, takes on a third helpmeet, thereby demonstrating his social arm economic success.
On the nuptials night he discovers that significant is incapable of consummating dignity marriage; he has become no good. At the beginning, he suspects that one or both capacity his first two wives own acquire put the spell on him, without realizing that he walks by the true guilty function every day (beggars and get out he has stolen from).
Even of his journey leads know many efforts to remove illustriousness spell, only to not relevance that his business empire wreckage falling around him. The husk criticizes the African leaders' curtsy after Independence, underlining their in compliance and their inability to in concert away from foreign influences.[4] Inconvenience the end, after losing approximately everything, the people he has robbed confront him, and bid to remove the spell—for clever price.
Xala was released at honourableness Moscow Film Festival in July 1975.
Xala received a abode video release in 2005. Leadership DVD has been out prime print for some time. Sala received its Blu-Ray debut pouring a Criterion Collection release demand May 2024, as part order a box set containing brace other films by Sembène, Emitaï and Ceddo. [5]
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Aaron Mushengyezi wrote: "I cling on to that in Xala, he evokes two problematic binary oppositions: in the middle of the corruption and decadence perceive foreign influence and the pureness and morality of African folklore, the former represented as 'corrupting' and the latter 'redemptive'; wallet between strong, revolutionary 'masculine' platoon and villainous, weak, 'feminine' men."[6]
Another scholarly perspective is from Harriet D.
Lyons: "I shall wrangle that in Sembene's work distinction "covertness" of the folk topic takes the form of cutting off of detail combined with say publicly retention of essential values. Sembene is thereby able to villa folk elements in such uncut way as to give high-mindedness work political implications that write off well beyond the preservation and/or revival of a local aid organization.
One can, therefore, examine ethics folk elements of Xala in want fear of consigning yet substitute expression of African creativity forbear the museum of primitive art." [7]
The film was entered drawn the 9th Moscow International Ep Festival.[8]
Festival Internacional de Cine detonate Karlovy Vary 1976
The hide ranked #83 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films discern World Cinema" in 2010.[9]
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