Hyenas
Theater 2
Saturday, Oct 12, 2019 4:40 PM
110 min | dir. Djibril Dop Mambe´ty | NR | Wolof, French, and Japanese with subtitles | 1992
One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Mambe´ty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical TOUKI BOUKI is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Du¨rrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambe´ty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.