CANNES 2014: TIMBUKTU BY ABDERAHMNE SISSAKO
By Mónica Delgado
Getting away somewhat from the slope of African cinema in the style of Ousmane Sembene, appealing less to the ritual matter or social aspect between hierarchies in a same community, Timbuktu explores the invasion of the Islamic police in a little town of the deserts of Mauritania, in an abrupt cultural and moral clash that is narrated with a keen and denouncing eye.