The Night of Truth (2004)
(La nuit de la vérité)
Country: B-F/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Fanta Régina Nacro
Cast: Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo, Naky Sy Savane
Synopsis:
In an unidentified African country, after a civil war has seen atrocities committed against the ruling ethnic group, the rebel Colonel holds out the olive branch to the President, proposing a night of reconciliation. The women, however, are less ready to bury the hatchet.
Review:
While in one sense intending to stand as a moral lesson for the whole of Africa, with its wounds that refuse to heal until reprisals are made, perpetuating the cycle of violence, this also resolves itself into an intimate tale of Shakespearean revenge between the President's wife and the Colonel, who is clearly tormented by a bitter memory and whose penitence is the driving force behind the action. The switch to optimism at the end, when the formerly rabidly intolerant Tomoto happily details the cementing of peace to the tomb of his former master, appears excessive, but is part of the film's sincere political stance. The acting is creaky to begin with, but does improve.
(La nuit de la vérité)
Country: B-F/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Fanta Régina Nacro
Cast: Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo, Naky Sy Savane
Synopsis:
In an unidentified African country, after a civil war has seen atrocities committed against the ruling ethnic group, the rebel Colonel holds out the olive branch to the President, proposing a night of reconciliation. The women, however, are less ready to bury the hatchet.
Review:
While in one sense intending to stand as a moral lesson for the whole of Africa, with its wounds that refuse to heal until reprisals are made, perpetuating the cycle of violence, this also resolves itself into an intimate tale of Shakespearean revenge between the President's wife and the Colonel, who is clearly tormented by a bitter memory and whose penitence is the driving force behind the action. The switch to optimism at the end, when the formerly rabidly intolerant Tomoto happily details the cementing of peace to the tomb of his former master, appears excessive, but is part of the film's sincere political stance. The acting is creaky to begin with, but does improve.
(La nuit de la vérité)
Country: B-F/FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Fanta Régina Nacro
Cast: Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo, Naky Sy Savane
Synopsis:
In an unidentified African country, after a civil war has seen atrocities committed against the ruling ethnic group, the rebel Colonel holds out the olive branch to the President, proposing a night of reconciliation. The women, however, are less ready to bury the hatchet.
Review:
While in one sense intending to stand as a moral lesson for the whole of Africa, with its wounds that refuse to heal until reprisals are made, perpetuating the cycle of violence, this also resolves itself into an intimate tale of Shakespearean revenge between the President's wife and the Colonel, who is clearly tormented by a bitter memory and whose penitence is the driving force behind the action. The switch to optimism at the end, when the formerly rabidly intolerant Tomoto happily details the cementing of peace to the tomb of his former master, appears excessive, but is part of the film's sincere political stance. The acting is creaky to begin with, but does improve.