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Hyènes (1992)

Comedy | 110 minutes
3,33 26 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 110 minuten

Alternative titles: Hyenas / Ramatou

Country: Senegal

Directed by: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Stars: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate and Faly Gueye

IMDb score: 7,4 (1.512)

Releasedate: 18 September 1992

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Hyènes plot

After years of exile, an old woman returns to her poor hometown. The prostitution has made her a rich woman. She promises everyone in the village a large portion of her wealth, if one of the notables of the village (the man who impregnated her at the time and was therefore the reason for her exile) is murdered. Everyone speaks shame about this proposal, but many people are already starting to buy all kinds of stuff on the credit.

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I thought this was a nice movie, though. Djibril Diop Mambety (apparently also the uncle of Mati Diop from Atlantiques) has not made many films - the African classic Touki Bouki and this Hyènes, but both are recommended. Hyènes mainly has an uncomfortable atmosphere. There is not much to do in the Senegalese town of Colobane, but shopkeeper Dramaan Drameh is a welcome guest there. That changes when a wealthy woman returns to Colobane, with great resentment towards Dramaan - who left her pregnant as a teenager, causing her to be exiled, having to work her way up in prostitution and losing her child[/ spoiler] and on whose head she now places a large cash prize. The ambiguous feelings and behavior of the villagers create a nice dark atmosphere, although there is also plenty of humor and light-heartedness to be experienced. Nice conversations, beautiful images with a desert-like coastal town as a setting, and also an interesting denouement when Dramaan sacrifices himself, disappears into thin air and Diop Mambety also makes clear references to tradition vs. modernity and (de)colonization. The village sells its soul, its traditions and its morality to big money/the West, and will never become the old Africa again.

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