In the best of times, Plácido Alonso is a modest carrier. These are not the best of times. His three-wheel van, which he is currently using to deliver charitable fruit baskets, and which he is slotted to drive in his town’s upcoming cavalcade (a mark of prestige), is about to be repossessed. He hasn’t been […]
Daily Archives: August 8, 2011
From Mali, writer-director Souleymane Cissé’s Finyé opens with an audible howl of wind superimposed on a panned misty landscape, exquisitely photographed in color by Étienne Carton de Grammont, in which there is no visible stir, alerting us that the title does not refer to weather. The wind echoes with cultural memory, African tradition, past superstition; […]
Dennis Grunes 