After authoritative two anapestic abstract of African cinema, “The Wind” and “Lumiere,” administrator Souleymane Cisse is aback with “Min Ye” (a.k.a. “Tell Me Who You Are”), an abrupt assuming of an cheating common African marriage: The wife has a abstruse lover, while her polygamous bedmate aboveboard divides his time with a additional wife. The bearings may assume paradoxically cool to Western audiences, and casting a lot of of the accusation on the cheating wife, as the blur does, grossly unfair. What charcoal in the anamnesis is a fascinating, if over-the-top, appearance abstraction and a affluent allotment of activity from burghal Africa.
In Bamako, the basic of Mali, Mimi shares a adorned alcazar with her filmmaker bedmate Issa (Assane Kouyate.) She is a heavy-set adorableness over 50, with incomparable accord and a wagging tongue. As the blur opens, she is a able woman alive on government programs; her alive activity vanishes, however, as she schemes to annulment Issa and ally her adolescent admirer Abba (Alou Sissoko). Both men adulation her, but neither is accommodating to leave his wife for her.
Rather than demography a close angle adjoin polygamy, which would accept fabricated “Min Ye” a abundant stronger film, Cisse seems agreeable to acknowledge its contradictions in avant-garde society. In the end, the additional ancestors is beheld as a aggravation in the men’s lives and a arrow in the ancillary of the wives, little more.
The characters’ attitude is a bit of a puzzle. Why does Mimi assert on abrogation Issa, who acutely dotes on her and loves her added than his beautiful, adolescent additional wife? Even her (female) lawyer, adjudicator and accompany admonition her to abide in the alliance and stop arena around. Little by little, eyewitness accord is breakable for the lying, scheming, artful Mimi, who afield thinks that powerful, educated, affluent women can’t be hurt. They can, and she is, if she gets her just comeuppance. But by again added than two hours of awning time accept gone by, and few will still affliction what happens to this operatic heroine, so exuberantly portrayed by the accepted TV announcer Sokona Gakou.
For African cinema admirers there is abundant to absorb in the film, like the women’s blatant costumes, advised by Gakou herself. Mimi is a built-in appearance victim, and her barmy clothes and shoes are clue signs of a awry personality.
Six admiral of photography are accustomed for the adorable cinematography, which works such abracadabra as analogous the apricot arid with bank colors.
Section: Out of competition
Production companies: Les Film Cisse, Canal Plus Horizon
Cast: Sokona Gakou, Assane Kouyate, Alou Sissoko
Director: Souleymane Cisse
Screenwriter: Souleymane Cisse
Producer: Souleymane Cisse
Director of photography: Fabien La Motte, Xavier Arias, Thomas Robin, Amaury Agier Aurel, Nicolas Mercier, Youssouf Cisse
Production designer: Bakary Ouattara
Music: David Reyes, Mamah Diabate
Costumes: Sokona Gakou
Editor: Andree Davanture, Youssouf Cisse, Barbara Bossuet, Marie Estelle Dieterle
135 minutes
Popularity: 9% [?]
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