"The wind awakens thought in man. In the life of man, there is always a moment when he must stop to consider what has already been done, and what there is still to do. Finyé poses this double question." --Souleymane Cissé Souleymane Cissé's The Wind was featured at the Cannes Festival, where Village Voice critic J. Hoberman saw it and wrote, "An even fiercer satire on Africa's post-colonial ruling class (than was Cissé's Ba'ara, 1980)--with an occasional resemblance to Shampoo--Finyé pits a skinny, bespectacled generalissimo against a motley crew of university students (some potheads, others politicos), his wayward third wife, and the venerable descendant of a tribal chief. Although marred by what could be a politically expedient insert (the generalissimo is ultimately curbed by more humane superiors), the comic action is enriched by a profound sense of animism and myth. Ultimately, Cissé's theme is less ruling-class corruption than the tension between the old Africa and the new; he could be the most significant filmmaker to emerge from the sub-Sahara since Ousmene Sembene." See Sunday, April 24 for New Film from Senegal.