Thinking Aloud About Film: The Youssef Chahine Film Club No. 3: Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène, 1968)

https://notesonfilm1.com/2021/12/04/the-youssef-chahine-film-club-no-3-mandabi-ousmane-sembene-1968/ A discussion of Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi. José had never seen it before and found it a revelation. Richard's now seen it twice, once at the cinema in a beautiful restoration that's now been put out by Criterion. The film is currently screening on MUBI and we highly recommend it. We talk issues of representation, gender, colonialism, how structures seem designed to oppress a sector of the population which nonetheless constitutes 'the people'. We also talk film aesthetics and what it was about the film that Youssef Chahine might have found so appealing.