Touki Bouki

Touki Bouki pronouncedtukki bukki , Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena is a 1973 Senegalese drama film, directed by Djibril Diop Mambty. It was shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.

Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bullhorned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bullhorned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.Based on his own story and script, Djibril Diop Mambty made Touki Bouki with a budget of 30,000 obtained in part from the Senegalese government. Though influenced by French New Wave, Touki Bouki displays a style all its own. Its camerawork and soundtrack have a frenetic rhythm uncharacteristic of most African films known for their often deliberately slowpaced, linearly evolving narratives. Through jump cuts, colliding montage, dissonant sonic accompaniment, and the juxtaposition of premodern, pastoral and modern sounds and visual elements, Touki Bouki conveys and grapples with the hybridization of Senegal. ........

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