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Summary: Entertaining film that you will enjoy over and over again!!!
Review: An excellent tale of greed and revenge. A must see!! Director Mambety's strong images are both beautiful and engaging, as he spins his fable of the richest women in the world and her very special request. A favorite crowd pleaser.
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Summary: A Great Filmmaker We Missed
Review: Hyenas is one of those films one cannot describe, because of the total sensiual experiance that comes out of it. Djibril Diop Mambety is an enigmatic figure in African Cinema. His first film, Touki Bouki, won an award at the Cannnes Film Festival in 1974. It was then almost 20 years until His next feature with a few shorts in between. This adaption of Friedrich Durrenmatt's, The Visit, takes the cold power of this story of spurned love to another level entirely. It becomes a metaphorical tales of materialism and consumerism and the value of human life in general. It has beautiful music,clever dialogue, ("...what is that you are smoking," Drame Dramen asks, "...if you were to ask it's name, it would say Havana..." replies the mayor of the town of Coloban. This film examines the revenge of a woman, Ramatou, driven out of town when she becomes pregnant by a married man. The Married Man, Drame Dramen, enlists the aid of two friends who lie and say she slept with her also to bring her character into question. She is driven from the town in disgrace. Twenty years later she returns a millionaire with the intention of buying justice and revenge with cold cash and consumer goods. Amidst surrealistics imagery of Washers Dryers and air conditioners she woes the villager to make them complict in her exacting that revenge. She wants the head of DFramen Drame...and the villagers may be all too willing to comply and the whispers begin. It is a timeless tale that seems to exist between now and then, a japanese woman chaffeur breaks out a cell phone in the mdidst of a dusty town on the edge of an eternal then....a crippled prosecutor, the peole of the town are colorful and brilliantly portrayed, the mayors seems a character from an African Oz...this is cinema at it's finest. I could go on but I would just like to encourage everyone to see this film. I know what I will be giving for gifts this year to close friends.
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Summary: Who knew? This is wonderful!
Review: I can't begin to describe how great this movie was. I saw it because of my interest in the play it's based on, but this film is much better than I ever would have imagined. Visually astonishing, with striking colors and beautiful African landscapes, powerfully acted, rigourous storytelling... If you haven't seen this, you're missing out. I wish I could write something more detailed and thought-out, but I just saw this an hour ago and am still reeling.
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Summary: Hyenas
Review: I think the film is not bad, the landscape and the nature are very beautiful. But the film is too different from the book. The people in this film don`t speak German, but the text is translated. (The film is dubbed.)The actors aren`t very good, they aren`t very famous. The story isn`t very realistic. We think still that this film is interesting, but we wouldn`t watch this film again. written by Dominik and Thomas
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Summary: My opinion
Review: I think this film is good for people who want to see something special. I don`t like it very much, because to me, "Hyenas" is a little bit complicated. This film plays in the nature and the actors act naturally, BUT it is boring! I`ve seen another film like "Hyenas". This one is spoken in Swiss-German. To me, that is the better one. The name is "The visit from the old lady". The plot is the same, but more interesting.
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Summary: A Wonderful Allegory About Structural Adjustment.
Review: It's been a while since I saw this film (I've seen it several times), but what most reviewers miss is it's allegorical message. The film isn't about the old woman wanting the man dead, but the symbols behind the actions. The idea of an outsider (or actualy someone whose been made wealthy in Europe) asking people to do things they normally would not bring to mind the economic reforms of structural adjustment. This funny and sad film conveys the sense of afro-pessimism so prevelant today.
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Summary: A Wonderful Allegory About Structural Adjustment.
Review: It's been a while since I saw this film (I've seen it several times), but what most reviewers miss is it's allegorical message. The film isn't about the old woman wanting the man dead, but the symbols behind the actions. The idea of an outsider (or actualy someone whose been made wealthy in Europe) asking people to do things they normally would not bring to mind the economic reforms of structural adjustment. This funny and sad film conveys the sense of afro-pessimism so prevelant today.
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Summary: Hyenas
Review: Our opinion about this film is good. The actors act very naturally, but they aren't very famous actors.The landscape is very beautiful. The film is set in a very nice place. It's negative, because the text and the names aren't based on Dürrenmatts' play. You see, that the people are very poor! The film is too different from the book.
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Summary: Our opinion
Review: Our opinion about this film is very positive, because it is set in the nature. The actors aren't famous and so they act freely and naturally. The film shows that many people are ready to kill someone for money. It's just one thing we'd like to know about this film: How does his death happen? We think that's the most important scene in this story and there is not enough information given.
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Summary: already a classic of the African Cinema
Review: Setting, pace and characters are beautiful developed in this masterpiece of the African Cinema. Diop Mambety used F.Duerrenmatt's original freely, but with a strong own identity and style. An old lady returns to her poor home town, after she became rich. Wondering why, the people start to talk. Slowly the viewer discovers her story. The old lady is aristocratic every moment of the movie, even in non-aristocratic moments...
Highly recommended for everybody, who likes real storytelling cinema.
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