Touki Bouki

  • Drama
  • Romance
5/10/1973
91

The Journey of the Hyena.

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

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  • badelf

    I don't what to say about this movie.

    One thing is very certain. The Avant-Garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s is blatantly clear in the styling of this film. That alone makes this one work a significant, historical mile-post in cultural cinema.

    Typically avant-garde, the film's sarcasm pointed at the bourgeois (capitalist) class is not only quite biting, but also quite humorous. It uses the juxtaposition of horrendously misfitting music as a means to an end. And it works beautifully.

    Other than it's class struggle element, I'm not sure what else is relevant in the 21st century. But as historical cinema, it's clearly valuable.

    May 30, 2024
  • griggs79

    Touki Bouki is a strange, stylish trip through 70s Dakar, following two young lovers desperate to get to Paris. Its got that scrappy, rebellious energylots of quick cuts, pop music, and surreal moments that give it a real French New Wave feel. But its not just fun and games. The slaughterhouse imagery is appropriately grim and sticks with you, casting a dark shadow over the whole thing. Mambétys saying something big about escape, identity, and whats lost chasing a dream.

    March 24, 2025

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