Country: France
Year: 1999
Duration: 53'
This middle-length film was shot in the same year as Le Cri du coeur, Ouédraogo's first film shot outside of Burkina Faso in France. This film is another challenge to film duration and to the way of talking about an issue - even a hard issue like that of AIDS. This film was commissioned and produced by Arte. Ouédraogo uses a light touch and humor. He makes comedy co-exist with tragedy. There is a scene where we watch a demonstration on how to use prophylactics, and there is the scene of the death of the protagonist. Ouédraogo makes his cinema continue down the streets of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Eugène has moved here dreaming to become a singer. AIDS becomes an important presence, but it is not overbearing. Here Ouédraogo does not demonstrate ever. Rather, he uses a fluid manner to render aspects of the real and of existence that he has captured, in his fiction, as they are being lived out. This film is a dance of colors and music. It is no accident that the role of Eugène was given to the singer Ismaël Lô who played his character in a new context.
Biography
film director
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Burkina Faso in 1954. He graduated from the African Film Studies Institute in Ouagadougou. He then worked in the governing board of the Film Production of Burkino Faso in 1981. He remained for a period in Kiev. In 1985 he graduated from IDHEC in Paris. He then received a degree in film studies at the University of Paris at the Sorbonne.
FILMOGRAFIA
Poko (cm, 1981), Les Écuelles (cm, 1983), Les Funérailles du Larlé Naaba (co-regia di Pierre Rouamba, cm, 1984), Ouagadougou, Ouaga deux roues (cm, 1985), Issa le tisserand (cm, 1985), Tenga (cm, 1985), Yam Daabo (1986), Yaaba (1989), Tilaï (1990), A Karim na Sala (tv, 1991), Obi (mm, tv, 1991), Samba Traoré (1992), Gorki (cm, tv, 1993), Le cri du cœur (1994), Afrique, mon Afrique (mm, 1994), Kini & Adams (1997), Les Parias du cinéma (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Le Guerrier (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: La Boutique (cm, 1997), Scénarios du Sahel: Pour une fois (cm, 1997), Pleurs de femmes (cm, video, 1999), Kadi Jolie (cm, video, 1999).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto: Idrissa Ouédraogo.
Director of photography: Daniel Barrau.
Editor: Monica Coleman.
Sound: Philippe Sénéchal.
Music: Ismaël Lô, Kangalet.
Cast: Ismaël Lô, Georgette Paré, Naky Sy Savane.
Production company: Noé productions/La Sept Arte.
Director of photography: Daniel Barrau.
Editor: Monica Coleman.
Sound: Philippe Sénéchal.
Music: Ismaël Lô, Kangalet.
Cast: Ismaël Lô, Georgette Paré, Naky Sy Savane.
Production company: Noé productions/La Sept Arte.