Essential Cinema: Century of Sembène
XALA
Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Senegal, 1975, 2h 5min, DCP, In French and Wolof with English subtitles
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A corrupt bureaucrat, finding he has been struck impotent, sets out to determine who has placed the curse (the title XALA means “curse”) upon him. This is Ousmane Sembène in his most satirical key.
