Den Muso (The Young Girl, Souleymane Cissé) 1/8

IN BAMBARA W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES

12 years before Yeelen (Brightness), Cissé broke ground in his homeland of Mali by making the first-ever feature film in his native language, Bambara, finding controversy with a focus on sexual violence and youths torn between traditional life and the codes of the city. (1975)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mali
• Bambara
• Cisse
• sex
• youth
• Bamako
• city
• culture
• Africa
• tradition
• modernity
• women
• girls
• rape
• realism

[zaynabouc]

its nice seing bambara movies online, please upload more. Can u also upload "sunjata keita" the movie. Thank u

[whateverhte]

@zaynabouc I haven't seen Sunjata Keita yet, but I've uploaded another rare classic Bambara film, Souleymane Cissé's Baara (Work) on my other channel- just search "Baara". If you want to see Finyé (The Wind), it's also on here, but with only French subs.

[ensouvenir]

Cissé!!! I've never watched a film that was in Bambara before. Congrats on getting the subs to work! :)

Merci!

[taipeistory]

Many thanks for uploading this film by Cisse, I´m glad to get to know more great African cinema.

[whateverhte]

cherchez "Baara," et j'espère que vous le trouverez dans la chaine brightersummerday... merci.

[moulsauce1]

sil cous plai avez vous le film baara ou waati de souleymane cissé??

[whateverhte]

Oh yeah: pour les francophones, j'ai aussi les sous-titres en francais, et je peux les incluir (comme "CC"- closed captions) si quelquin me demande cela. Je pense que peut-etre, les autres Africains qui ne sont pas au courant avec la langue Bambara voudront regarder ce film, mais c'etait beaucoup plus simple de le sous-titrer en une langue premierement, et j'ai choisi l'anglais parce que bien sur plus de personnes la parlent...

[whateverhte]

Me neither, as far as the Bambara goes, except for Cissé's Yeelen. I'll have to see Finyé soon. I loved Den muso, hope you enjoy it. :) It's not an especially happy story, but it is a beautiful film, expressing a strong sense of the place (Bamako).

[whateverhte]

Thanks for your comment. You're sharing- or eventually going to share- such a wealth of rare films, it's nice to hear there are still a few you're unaware of!!