Badou Boy
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Date: January 01, 1970 to December 31, 1970
Dates Note: 1970
Country of Origin:
Senegal
Place of Origin: Senegal
Languages:
French and Wolof
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata and L’Image Retrouvée laboratories in association with Teemour Diop Mambéty. Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers, and UNESCO—in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna—to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
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Film Preservation: Celebrating The Film FoundationDescription:
Mambéty’s short works foretold the exuberant creativity of his subsequent feature Touki Bouki (1973). Transferring his experience in experimental theater to cinematic innovation, in Badou Boy, Mambéty presents little stories on the screen, interweaving them with others on the soundtrack. The film revolves around a punk kid in Dakar, Senegal’s capital. The humor and conniving characters sometimes employ slapstick, with the filmmaker doubling as an actor in one Chaplin-esque scene. No chance is missed to mock authority.
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