Moolaadé Clip
April 1st, 2008 by Andre Soares
World Cinema clips: The video below, posted by landurius on youtube, is from writer-director Ousmane Sembene’s 2004 drama Moolaadé, the story of a woman who, by refusing to accept traditional social mores — in this case, the necessity for female circumcision — must pay the price of being independent-minded.
This particular sequence revolves around a married man who attempts to maintain his social standing by, quite literally, whipping his "free-thinking" wife. In such societies (in that regard not that different from ours, really), the establishment sees free thinking as a danger — especially in the case of women, who are supposed to be thoroughly submissive.
Moolaadé won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
The Senegalese Sembene, perhaps Sub-Saharan Africa’s most renowned filmmaker, died in June 2007 at the age of 84. Moolaadé was his last film.
Note: The subtitles are in Spanish.
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