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Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: NYD87607 | New Yorker VideoLanguage: French, Arabic Summary language: English Original language: French Publication details: [United States] : New Yorker Video, c2007.Description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

1567304575
9781567304572

Other title:

Waiting for Happiness

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Ethnic -- Feature.

DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1997.2 .W358564 2007

Production credits:

Editor, Nadia Ben Rachid ; cinematography, Jacques Besse.

Cast: Khatra Ould Abdel Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed.Summary: Abderrahmane Sissako has established himself as one of Africa's leading filmmakers. This hypnotic tone poem confirms Sissako's talent for capturing the essence of a particular place through evocative imagery, low-key comedy, and close observation of everyday life. In this case, the place is a spectacularly isolated, wind-scoured cluster of adobe buildings perched on a bleached desert plain that ends abruptly at the blue ocean. In keeping with this austere environment, the lives of its inhabitants are pared down to two basic choices: adaptation or exile. In the latter category is Abdallah, a citified college student who temporarily returns home and, unable to speak or dress like a native, becomes painfully, comically alienated. Opposed to him is Khatra, an alert, curious boy apprenticed to the wizardly local electrician, who demonstrates how apparent oppositions (such as magic/technology, globalization/village life) might be reconciled through improvisation and patience. The precision of Sissako's compositions evokes Antonioni and Ozu, but the loose narrative structure is closer to Altman and Wenders.Summary: This hypnotic tone poem confirms Sissako's talent for capturing the essence of a place through evocative imagery, Tatiesque comedy, and close observation of everyday life. Abdallah returns to his homeland, a seaside town of Nouadhibou in Mauritania, for an indeterminate amount of time. Now a stranger to his own community and language, the young man tries to absorb as much local color (literally and figuratively) before embarking for Europe.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02102 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050182760

Originally produced or released in 2003.

Run time: approx. 90 min.

Title from container.

Special features: Interview with the director; theatrical trailer; director's notes and bio; liner notes (with an essay by Jared Rapfogel).

DVD, letterboxed (16/9) presentation, compatible 4/3.

French or Hassanya dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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