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Tilai [VHS]

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This is an excellent movie, one of the best movie I have ever watched and appreciated since Wend Kuni of Gaston Kabore. It is a truly beautiful artwork that I will strongly recommend for those interested in understanding traditional Africa, especially family and marriage in traditional Burkina Faso. There are several themes being treated in this movie: marriage in the Mossi society, the social organization of the family, the powers of the elders in traditional societies of Burkina Faso, the price to pay when one goes against traditions, and finally the cost of incest in those social formations.
Burkina Faso is the capital of African cinema, and it is not surprising to see a magnificent artwork like Tilai shine again.
Luc Zio
Webmaster Ouaganet.com

Another country , another nation far away from asia here . Just a wonderful DISCOVERY and GEOGRAPHY film with a uncommon love-story. Wonderful cinemography , wonderful music , don't miss it!

When two ardent lovers are separated due a sudden marriage among her and the father of him, the things will come out of control. The initial reaction is surprise, the second indignation but the third is to ignore this fact and flee.

But, since the instant they bet for running away, the unerring wheel of the tragedy has been exposed and so, dark clouds will hover this fragile state of happiness between both of them.

Against all the odds, Quedragogo showed the world Burkina Fasso is presnt at the moment to cite the great artistic achievements of the last year of the eighties.

A majusucle masterwork that certainly will shock you from the very beginning.

Don't miss it!!!

this movie was very boring. it involves Saga, a guy who loves a woman who his father married. he has sex with this woman and the town considers it incest. he is forced to flee. his brother claims to have killed him. but Saga returns...

this is an art house film. it is from west africa. and i found it quite boring. the plot was nothing unusual. it was a study of honor and tradition, a code of conduct for the town's people (tilai means "the law"). it is boring. very boring. i fell asleep watching it. and my mind wandered so much that at times i lost track of what was going on.

the landscape shots are beautiful.