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Title: The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun + Le Franc: Two Films by Djibril Diop Mambety
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Type: Blu-ray
EAN: 0738329265823
Description: Djibril Diop Mambéty, a towering figure in world cinema, is best known for his two features, Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992, re-released in a new restoration by Metrograph Pictures in 2019). Yet these two extraordinary films tell only part of the story of the director’s enormous accomplishments in his too-brief life. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) and Le Franc (1994) are masterpieces of the medium-length form, completed by Mambéty in his final years. They provide us a fuller picture of the elements that define his small, but perfect, filmography—a rich social vision, sly humor, and formal ingenuity. Mambéty initially meant for these films to lead off a trilogy to be titled “Tales of Ordinary People,” but sadly lived only to complete Le Franc and The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun.

Both films were restored in 2K by Waka Films in 2019 with the support of the Institut français – Cinémathèque Afrique and the CNC at Éclair Laboratories from the original negative.

Special Features:
• Audio Commentaries for The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun and Le Franc by Film Scholar Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
• Cinema is Magic (2022, a documentary about Djibril Diop Mambety by Silvia Voser)
• Trailers
Country/Region of Manufacture: Senegal
Studio: Metrograph Pictures
Language: Wolof
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Djibril Diop Mambety
Actor: Lissa Balera, Tairou M'Baye, Dieye Ma Dieye, Aminta Fall
Certificate: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hour and 31 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)

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