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Timbuktu (2014)

Film
DirectorAbderrahmane Sissako
Meta takes4

Figures

Locations
  • Kidane's family tent in the desert, away from the occupied town → The Counter-Space
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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