75
The situation is comic and yet quite serious, as are the ways in which language is used.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Sembène is a far more adroit and elegant storyteller than many may be accustomed to seeing.
100
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Intelligent yet easy-going masterpiece.
75
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Both politically intricate and genuinely hilarious, Faat-Kine is a story grounded in dichotomies.
80
In every way a sunny film. Supremely affirmative, it ends with the funniest, sexiest close-up of the year.
80
Wildly entertaining and a visual delight.
75
A youthful, and often funny, piece of filmmaking. You might never expect that its director is 73 years old.