Timbuktu (2014)
Figures
Form & technique
- The "football without a ball" scene
Tropes
- Juxtaposition of lyrical beauty and brutal violence
- The improvised Sharia court and subsequent punishments → The State of Exception
- Fatou's song of defiance during her flogging
- Satima's refusal to wear gloves and her direct gaze
- The jihadist Abdelkerim's mundane flaws (secret smoking, awkward conversations) → The Banality of Evil
- Constant, flawed translation between languages (Arabic, Bambara, French, Tamashek)
- The confrontation between Kidane and the fisherman Amadou → The Cinematic Chimera
- Kidane's accidental killing of the fisherman Amadou
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