Badou Boy (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1970) : Filmoteca de ficción

Badou Boy
Djibril Diop Mambéty (Senegal, 1970) [56 min, 16 mm, color]

Sinopsis:

La película cuenta las aventuras de Badou Boy, un joven caradura, mientras recorre las calles de Dakar montado en un autobús. Retratos humorísticos de viajeros, persecución de la policía, a la que llaman “el dragón negro”. Una crónica de la vida cotidiana en el Dakar popular.

En African Film Library se escribió:La persecución de un niño delincuente, quien es acosado por un policía gordo y ridículo, a través de todos los rincones de los barrios marginales que muestran un aspecto insólito y poco habitual de Dakar, de la que hace una crítica con sentido del humor.

Djibril Diop Mambéty's first film is eloquent proof that artistry trumps mere money every time. This low-budget short film is homage to the spirit of silent movies and is set against the backdrop of a bustling Dakar in the late 1960s.

Badou Boy is real bad, a general menace to society ... or so the local police chief and his enforcer, “Cop”, believe. In a glorious on-screen hour, “Cop”gives chase to the title character, from the back streets and shanty dwellings of Dakar to its tarred boulevards and central city area. In reality, the boy is a street urchin, struggling to survive: in other words, a soft target for the establishment.

As “Boy” leads his pursuer on a merry chase, Mambéty gives an affectionate nod to Charlie Chaplin’s silent-film prototypes, the comic underdog (Boy) and generic authority-figure (Cop). Mambéty was to return again and again to the theme of lonely people on the verges of society, yet even in his own oeuvre the character of “Boy” stands out as particularly poignant.

Mambéty here also lays the basis for the profound critique of corrupting Western influences on Africa that is a hallmark of his films.

Touki Bouki escribió:The film narrates the adventures of Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, as he travels through the streets of Dakar on the bus. Humorous depictions of the passengers, the police, whom they call "black dragon" in hot pursuit... A chronicle of everyday life in Dakar.

The eponymous Badou Boy is the first in Mambety's series of charismatic but ultimately doomed rebels. A handsome young man in a paisley shirt, Badou Boy wanders from one offbeat adventure to another pursued by the comic but strangely menacing figure of the fat policeman. A hugely innovative African take on late 1960s psychedelia, with a kicking rock soundtrack, here in its embryonic form is the genius that Mambety would bring to fruition in his masterpiece.

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Reparto:

Lamine Ba, Al Demba Ciss, Christoph Colomb, Aziz Wassis Diop, Moustapha Touré, Djibril Diop Mambéty.
Idioma original: Francés, wolof.

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