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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.

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No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.

Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
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Sight & Sound63IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness9.1
Engagement8.2
Ease7.0

Wolof · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Romantic & Reflective