moolaade造句

• The audience " Moolaade " is intended for knows full well what " purification " means.
• At the same time, it's worth stressing how deeply pleasurable " Moolaade " is to watch.
• But " Moolaade " is told with an assurance and an urgency that raise it far above current-events agitprop.
• MOOLAADE : African director Ousmane Sembene's acclaimed film about a group of village women who band together to protect young girls from ritual circumcisions . ( New Yorker)
• In his new film, " Moolaade, " the women of a small village in Burkina Faso rebel against female genital mutilation, a subject that may repel squeamish viewers.
• 3 .'MOOLAADE'Speaking of old masters : In his 80s, Ousmane Sembene, the patriarch of African cinema, has made a great work of feminist rabble-rousing.
• And certainly " Moolaade, " the plainspoken Shakespearean masterpiece from the 81-year-old Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, is rooted in the specifics of Djerissa, the rural village in Burkina Faso where it was filmed.
• "Moolaade " is certainly a potent and timely polemic against a custom that many Africans are turning against, but its dramatic richness comes from the generous, patient precision with which Sembene observes that social order in all its complex, sometimes contradictory aspects.
• That would be a shame, not only because of the intrinsic importance of the subject, but because to skip " Moolaade " would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest.
• Colle's husband, Cire, is secretly sympathetic but can't afford to lose face in front of his friends; his hard-liner elder brother, Amanthe, urges him to beat Colle until she says the word that will end the moolaade.
• She's no one very important in the scheme of things-- just the second wife of one of the village's leading citizens-- but when " Moolaade " opens, four little girls have fled a " purification " ceremony to take refuge in her household.
• Along with two others ( who have disappeared from the village altogether ), the girls have fled from a purification ceremony that involves genital cutting, and as long as the Moolaade is in effect, they cannot be removed from the enclosed cluster of huts where their protector and her extended family live.
• Modernity itself is on trial in " Moolaade "-- the headman's son, Ibrahima ( Moussa Theophile Sowie ), a Paris businessman who has returned wearing silk suits and bearing TVs, has to decide whether he will marry an unpurified " balokoro " like Amasatou against his father's wishes.
• At 81, having organized unions, written novels and directed a handful of immortal films, Sembene surely has nothing left to prove, but " Moolaade " may well be his autumnal masterpiece-- a rousingly political film that is a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.
• They know that Colle opposes the practice, since her own mutilation later resulted in the death of two children during childbirth; her one grown daughter, Amasatou ( Salimata Traore ), is one of the few village women who hasn't been " purified . " Colle ties a rope across her threshold and pronounces a " moolaade, " the tribal equivalent of sanctuary.
• The film, the second in a projected trilogy that Sembene had said was devoted to " heroism in daily life, " locates that quality squarely with Colle and the women who join her cause . " Moolaade " tells a satisfying, accessible story, complete with detestable villains, brave heroes, suspense, intrigue and a finale that will bring tears of amazement to your eyes.
• Language carries unparalleled power in " Moolaade . " The word " purification " itself conspires with the scarlet robes and snake-head staffs of the Salindana priestesses led by the Doyenne des Exciseuses ( Mah Compaore ) to disguise what the ritual actually is : the excision, without anesthetic or sterilization, of a girl's clitoris so that she is unable to derive pleasure from sex.
• It also dramatizes, with a kind of clarity I have rarely seen on film, how a society can change from within, how even well-intentioned authority can become cruel and corrupt, and above all, how a single, stubborn act of reflexive resistance can alter the shape of the world . " Moolaade " illuminates the agonies of women in some parts of Africa, but rather than asking you to pity them in their plight, it leaves you envying their bravery and admiring their resolve.
• And let me add that, even though they weren't my personal cups of tea, the roster of worthy films extends well beyond my favorites to include " Hotel Rwanda, " " The Sea Inside, " " Maria, Full of Grace, " " Hero, " " The Aviator, " " In Good Company, " " Moolaade, " " Collateral, " " Open Water, " " Tarnation, " " Garden State, " " Closer " and a good half-dozen others that at least tried to do something serious with one of the world's greatest art forms.