Beninese cinema is small in output but rooted in a strong oral storytelling tradition, with filmmakers often drawing on Vodoun culture and West African myth. Son du serpent is a fine example of that sensibility at work. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 2.0★
West African cinema of the 1970s remains one of the least-documented corners of film history for most European and North American audiences, and Benin in particular barely registers on most people's mental map of global filmmaking. By the early 1970s, the francophone West African film scene was
Genre Drama
★★½ — Son du serpent (2015)
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