Malian cinema grew out of post-independence cultural policy, with Souleymane Cissé and Cheick Oumar Sissoko bringing West African storytelling to international festival screens from the 1970s onward. The Terrible Child shows that tradition up close. Browse Macca's Malian reviews below.
Rating: 3.5★
It's genuinely rare to sit down with a piece of cinema that treats its native folklore with this level of unapologetic, mystical fidelity. Souleymane Cissé's Yeelen doesn't just borrow from Bambara mythology and dress it up for outside consumption. It pulls you entirely into
Genre Animation
★★½ — The Terrible Child (1993)
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