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Bookmark this pageFaces of Women (1985)
Director: Désiré Ecaré
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From Time Out Film Guide
A wonderfully unpredictable and lively triptych on the financial, sexual and emotional emancipation of African women, pieced together over twelve years by a film-maker who hasn't a single dull thought in his head. Traditional choruses and dances link the episodes and comment on the action, lending the film a structure that owes no debts to colonial models. The middle episode, about a woman who tires of her possessive husband and goes out to get herself a lover, is a real eye-opener: an extremely naked scene of seduction in and around a river lays a hundred puritan ghosts.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Désiré Ecaré
Cast: Eugénie Cissé Roland, Albertine Guéssan, Véronique Mahile, Alexis Leatche, Désiré Bamba full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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