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★
There are films that wear their cultural heritage lightly, sprinkling in a few local details for colour before defaulting to familiar genre shapes. And then there is Yeelen. Released in 1987 and rooted in the oral traditions and spiritual cosmology of the Bambara people of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's
Genre Animation
★★½ — The Terrible Child (1993)
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