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Cinema
Matanga
David-Pierre Fila · 1994
Synopsis
Gustave, a twenty-six-year-old architect, returns to Brazzaville after a year of work in Senegal and learns of the death of his cousin Sidonie, a childhood companion who had once saved him from drowning in the river and whom he was to marry before their studies separated them. At the wake, people talk of bad luck, witchcraft, a dissolute life; he thinks of AIDS, and seeks to find out who this free young woman of Brazzaville was, helped by Céline, a Gabonese friend, and Alphonsine, the younger sister.
Context
The first fiction feature of a documentary maker, the film was produced by François Margolin and Les Films bantous, with Quebec, the European Community, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam festival, where it was shown in 1996. The release date is not established: 1994 in filmographies, 1995 for the Rotterdam festival.
Who it is for
A fiction film in French of about seventy-five minutes, which is hardly seen except in retrospectives or at festivals.
Prizes and reception
Presented in 1996 at the Rotterdam festival, which had supported its production through its fund for filmmakers.
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