Moolaade

Since I didn't watch last night's movie because I was hanging out with my co-workers, I thought I would watch it today. Of course, I ended up sleeping in, then going out and running errands for way too long, and I didn't get home until about 8. If I can't squeeze it in tomorrow, I'll bump it to the end.

So, today I watched Moolaade, directed by Ousmane Sembène in 2004, I movie that I had never heard of before until today. I didn't really know what to expect. I looked up a short blurb on IMDB and I worried it might be sort of a tear-jerker. I was really pleased that it wasn't. For dealing with a subject as serious as female genital mutilation, this is a bright, moving film. It was just so well made. It didn't focus on the horrors of the subject matter, but more on the characters and how they responded to it. It was quite good, and honestly I guess I feel a little surprised I've never heard this movie talked about before. But I also hear a ton about German and French (and so on) cinema, but not so much (er, not anything) about African cinema. So that could be the problem right there.