The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Le franc

Sunday, Feb 20, 2022
5 PM (95 mins)

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(La petite vendeuse du “Soleil”)

featuring

Lissa Baléra, Taïru M’Baye, Oumy Samb, Moussa Baldé,

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This was to be Djibril Diop Mambéty’s second film in a trilogy called Tales of Ordinary People, but it was instead his last film, as he died during its making. Nonetheless, it is a loving yet unsentimental “hymn to the courage of street children.” Feisty and fearless Sili sets out to earn a living by hawking the newspaper Le Soleil (The Sun), the only girl in a sea of boys. Mambéty closed his masterpiece, “This tale is thrown to the sea. The first to breathe it will go to heaven.” He left this gift on his own way there.

Cornelius Moore

FILM DETAILS

Screenwriter

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cinematographer

Jacques Besse

Language

Wolof
with English subtitles

Print Info

Color
Digital
45 mins

Source

Metrograph Pictures

Preceded By

Le franc

Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1994

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Le franc is Djibril Diop Mambéty’s humorous first film in the series Tales of Ordinary People. Marigo, a poor musician, has trouble making enough money to pay his bills—including his rent. His landlady takes her revenge by confiscating his beloved musical instrument. Now Marigo must come up with money fast. He buys a lottery ticket and actually wins, but his troubles aren’t over. Behind Marigo’s richly colored dreams is a wealth of allegory about life in Senegal.