When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Ousmane Sembène
Director
Fatoumata Coulibaly
Collé Gallo Ardo Sy
Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Hadjatou
Salimata Traoré
Amasatou
Dominique Zeïda
Mercenaire
Rasmané Ouédraogo
Ciré Bathily
Joseph Traoré
Dugutigi
Théophile Sowié
Ibrahima
Balla Habib Dembélé
Sacristain
Gustave Sorgho
Bakary
Moussa Sanogo
Konaté fils
Naky Sy Savane
Sanata
An uncomplicated, family-oriented man struggles to adjust to an ever-changing world, especially after suffering a loss. Even for the early 1900s, a less complicated time in many ways than now, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is a simple man.
With such a raw look at the 15th century, it seems that Disney was really trying to step outside of its element with this motion picture.
The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.