Library of African cinema. Faat kine / a project of California Newsreel ; Filmi Doom Reew Dakar-Senegal presente ; filme de Sembene Ousmane ; scénario, dialogues, réalisation, Sembene Ousmane.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, director.

Mbengue, Wongue, producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

French

Wolof

Subjects (All):

Patriarchy--Senegal.

Patriarchy.

Single mothers--Senegal.

Single mothers.

Women service industries workers--Senegal.

Women service industries workers.

Women--Senegal--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Man-woman relationships--Senegal.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 minutes)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2001.

Language Note:

In French and Wolof with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Faat Kine joins a number of recent African films which use abusive, patriarchal relationships to symbolize the more general despoiling of Africa by a corrupt and ineffective (male) elite. Sembene may have first suggested this equation when the disgusted wife at the end of Borom Sarret leaves to earn the dinner money, probably by prostitution. By the time of Xala, El Hadji clearly represents a neo-colonialism scorned by his wives and daughter. In Moussa Sene Absa's Tableau Ferraille Gagnesiri, the faithful, traditional wife sails away from Damm, her vacillating politician husband, representing grassroots Africa finally abandoning its often self-interested leaders to set is own course; one can even imagine her becoming the self-reliant businesswoman, Faat Kine.

Participant:

Venus Seye, Mame Ndumbé Diop, Awa Sene Sarr, Tabara Ndiaye.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 20, 2017).

Nominated 2001 Fribourg International Film Festival, Grand Prix Award

OCLC:

1009111815