Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Click Here To Watch Touki Bouki (1973)

Mory a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cows skull and Anta a university student have met in Dakar Senegals capital. Alienated and disaffected with Senegal and Africa they long to go to Paris and work up different con schemes to raise the money. Mory steals clothing and money from a wealthy gay man who had brought him home and he and Anta book passage on a ship to France.

Review

It may be an old film but I had to switch off after the first 30 minutes. There seemed to be horrific scenes of animal slaughter every so often for no real reason. It was horrible.

No explanation no real plot flow very confusing strange camera angles repeated scenes and too much pretentious symbolism. There were some parts of it that had real promise and made me giggle but after a while I just gave up. Something was lacking. Something was lost in translation.

So again a warning scenes of barbaric animal slaughter. We're talking PETA video style images OK stuff you should be OK with as a meat eater but usually people are not.