Fresh
If Jean-Luc Godard had kept his sense of humor, he might be making engaging movies like Bamako.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Bamako
Overview
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Director and cast
- Abderrahmane Sissako Director
- Aïssa Maïga as Melé
- Tiécoura Traoré as Chaka
- Maimouna Hélène Diarra as Saramba
- Balla Habib Dembélé as Falaï
- Djénéba Koné as La soeur de Chaka
- Hamadoun Kassogué as Le journaliste
- William Bourdon as Avocat partie civile
- Aïssata Tall Sall as Avocat des parties civiles
- Mamadou Kanouté as Avocat de la défense
- Gabriel Magma Konate as La procureur
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Unlike other recent films about the plight of Africa, Bamako channels its outrage more directly, yet with greater subtlety, by recruiting real-life witnesses to Africa's economic crises.
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
Fresh
[An] intimate, urgent and wildly imaginative indictment of post-colonial economic policies in Africa.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Fresh
Trial movies can be painful, but Bamako is a powerful polemic leavened with moments of beauty and humor.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Bamako is an attack on globalization that is endlessly cogent, confrontational -- and, best of all, as captivating as it is illuminating.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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