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Badou Boy aka Bad Boy is a senegalais film directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Badou Boy aka Bad Boy (1970)
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Add to a movie listBadou Boy aka Bad Boy is a short film set against the backdrop of a bustling Dakar in the late 1960s. "Cop" believes "Boy" is a menace to society but he is merely a street kid trying to survive. As "Boy" leads "Cop" on a chase through the shantytowns to the city centre of Dakar, director Djibril Mambéty gives a nod to Charlie Chaplin's model of silent films. Mambéty was to return again and again to the theme of lonely people on the edge of society. The character of "Boy" stands out as particularly poignant. Mambéty also lays the basis for the profound critique of corrupting Western influences on Africa - a hallmark of his films.
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Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Rating72%
In Dakar, selling newspapers on the street is an occupation always occupied by boys. But one morning, Sili, a young beggar, challenges that exclusive rule. Her age is uncertain, between 10 and 13, and she walks the streets with the help of her crutches. She begs for help in the same spot the boys sell their papers, but today they attack her and she falls, rolling over and over. That’s it; she too will sell newspapers starting tomorrow.
Le Franc (1994)
, 45minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Comedy
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
Rating66%
Marigo the musician dreams with his instrument – a congoma – confiscated by his landlady because he never pays the rent. He gets hold of a lottery ticket and decides to put it in a safe place while he waits for the draw: he glues it to the back of his door. The night of the draw, fortune blinds Marigo, he is the proud owner of the winning ticket. He already sees himself as a millionaire, with a thousand congomas, an orchestra and a private plane… He even has visions of the charismatic Aminata Fall, symbol of capitalism in Africa. But there is small problem; the ticket is glued to the door…
Hyenas (1992)
, 1h50Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Rating73%
Hyènes (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was 16.
The Making of Yaaba (1989)
, 34minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Idrissa Ouédraogo
Rating67%
Parlons Grand-mère est un court métrage documentaire sénégalais de 1989. Djibril Diop Mambéty a suivi et filmé le tournage de Yaaba, le deuxième long métrage d'Idrissa Ouédraogo. Un documentaire bourré d'anecdotes humoristiques sur les dangers du tournage de films au Burkina Faso.
Touki Bouki (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Rating69%
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.
Badou Boy (1970)
, 56minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating68%
A sarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself". The contest pits the non-conformist individual against an absurdly caricatured policeman who pursues the protagonist through comedically improbable scenarios. Badou Boy celebrates an urban subculture while parodying the state.
City of Contrasts (1969)
, 21minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Rating68%
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse-drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.