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ny times on bamako By A.O. SCOTT, September 30th, 2006 "The director Abderrahmane Sissako’s “Bamako,” the most politically urgent film in the festival and also the most formally audacious, combines a bracing indictment of the world financial system with a subtle glimpse at daily life in Africa. At the center of this film from Mali is a mock trial, during which robed lawyers argue over whether the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are guilty of increasing Africa’s misery. But around the edges, as passionate speeches are made, we witness a wedding, the breakup of a marriage and the routines of work and play. The juxtaposition of the abstract and concrete, of macrocosm and microcosm, makes “Bamako” much more than the sum of its arguments. It’s a film that needs to be seen, argued over and seen again". |