Bibliograph

Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; World Cinema Foundation, No. 1

Type

Label

Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; World Cinema Foundation, No. 1

Language

wol

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

880844111

Responsibility statement

Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; World Cinema Foundation

Runtime

590

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 684, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689, 690

Summary

Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--ContainerRedes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers"--ContainerRiver called Titas: "A saga ... [of] the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal"--ContainerDry summer: "Follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbors' crops. ... Alongside this tale ... is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride"--ContainerTrances: "The ... Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the ... subject of this ... musical documentary"--ContainerHousemaid: "The story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children"--Container

Technique

live action

Classification

Contributor