LinkTV Cinemondo, Waiting for Happiness (2002)

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Titles known as: Heremakono (2002) En attendant le bonheur (France) Waiting for Happiness (International: English title) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Happiness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308363/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10002025-waiting_for_happiness/ http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=21588&fid=32 Waiting for Happiness Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo Regions: Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa Topics: Race / Ethnicity / Ethnic Conflict Mauritania, 100 minutes Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako (Life on Earth) ;; Official Selection — New York, Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals Winner — FIPRESCI PRIZE, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival ;; Master filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako unveils a new vision of Africa with this luxuriously rhythmic, carefully observed film. Nouadhibou is a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast, and amongst its white-washed buildings and melodic songs passed down through generations, lives intertwine while waiting for a hypothetical happiness. ;; After a long absence, the seventeen-year-old Abdallah visits his mother before emigrating to Europe. Unable to speak the local language, the melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country. Traditional, colorful fabrics interest him much less than the latest European trends, and though he shies away from village customs and festivities, Abdallah watches this touching, foreign universe unfold around him with sheer sensitivity. ;; This film features an introduction with writer/director, Abderrahmane Sissako, hosted by Peter Scarlet, and a 9-minuate post show wrap up where Sissako discusses Waiting for Happiness and his latest film, Bamako. ;; The Court was selected for this year's New York Film Festival and was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ;; “Waiting for Happiness is Mr. Sissako’s nod to a small hamlet’s ability — no, its need — to greet encroaching advancement with a shrug…We can only guess that Mr. Sissako is also using the movie as a way of dealing with the possibility that he’s being hailed as Africa’s next big thing. It’s a momentous responsibility to shoulder, and like Abdallah, the director is still in the process of establishing who he is.” — Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times ;; To learn more, or to purchase this program, visit New Yorker Films. ;; ;; About Cinemondo This film is part of Link TV’s world cinema series Cinemondo, premiering entertaining and award-winning foreign films from some of the world’s most talented directors. Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Starring: Katra Ould Abder Kader, Matta Ould Mohamed Abeid, Nana Diakité Mauritania-born Director Abderrahmane has been hailed as African cinema's next big thing. Whether that translates into wide viewership is another story, considering his film opened in London last week without the attention it deserved. Not that his melancholy, poetic, ethereal Waiting for Happiness arrived in town like a circus, Kill Bill-style. Instead it arrived in a big, cynical city like London like the protagonist of the film: timid, displaced and not speaking quite the same language. In Waiting for Happiness, seventeen-year-old Abdallah visits his native village before he sets off to Europe. This event serves as the pretext for the film's exquisite visual tapestry and equally entrancing soundtrack, although Sissako avoids dwelling on it too much. Abdallah feels estranged from the place, not being able to speak the local dialect, and spends his time observing the timeless pace of the city through the frames of his mother's house in this desert-like, windswept north-western part of Africa. The story in the film resonates with the probable trajectory the film will have on the commercial circuit, despite having won the International Critics' Prize in Cannes 2002. Like a precious stone, those who will love it will have to do a considerable amount of digging just to find it. It's difficult to recommend a film like this in the context of the story itself. We have to take Abdallah's point of view and simply observe the townsfolk's lives unravelling. We see a young girl being coached to sing traditional Arab music; a local handy man (Maata) trying to connect electricity to a house, with little success. He is helped by Khatra, a boy of six or seven, who helps Maata on his errands while infusing the film with a charm and humour that comes from his dream of owning a blue overall (a dream that we eventually see coming true). We also meet Nana, a beautiful woman who is going through a melancholy phase inb her life, signified by frequent flashbacks to a romantic trip to Europe. Then there's a Chinese man who is fond of karaoke, Abdallah's mother and a roster of other fleeting characters which stock the film with faces while the ambiance, the mood and the general pace of the film does the rest. Redolent of Italian Neo-realism, Waiting for Happiness completely goes against the grain of both contemporary mainstream and independent cinema. Subtle and philosophical, it requires poetic language to describe it. Like a lullaby wafting across the hazy afternoon of the metaphysical landscape it contains and is contained by, it takes the viewer to a universe that is timeless – perhaps the only temporal signifiers are the tacky gadgets the Chinese men sells, the old cars, the electricity. But it doesn't seem like the director is concerned in showing a place that has resisted the encroachment of globalisation, or any other political issues for that matter – this is not a topical film. Rather it's a director's poetic gaze at people he knows and a place with which he is emotionally connected. ;; ;;
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