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Spoiler-free premise
Dakar lovers Mory and Anta scheme for passage to Paris, testing fantasy, theft, identity, and their attachment to Senegal.
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Cowherd Mory rides a motorcycle decorated with a bull skull through Dakar and meets university student Anta. Alienated from local prospects, they devise scams to finance a ship to Paris, borrowing wealth and performance as they approach departure.
Why it belongs
Through collage editing, street sound, recurring music, and a motorcycle carrying both freedom and slaughter, Touki Bouki makes postcolonial desire jagged and exhilarating.
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Bull horns, slaughterhouse images, Josephine Baker's 'Paris,' ships, beaches, fashionable clothes, and abrupt associative cuts make aspiration sensorially divided—Mory and Anta's plan never erases the pull of Dakar.
Major award wins
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