Ramata 2008, Dakar, Gorée Directed by Léandre-Alain Baker Written by Miguel Machalski, Léandre-Alain Baker, Abasse Ndione A rare African co-production that forgoes European assistance, Ramata is a sombre tale of love, loss, and despair. Directed by Léandre-Alain Baker, and based on the novel by Abasse Ndione , the film follows a tragic aging beauty on her downward trajectory. Ramata, 50 and still endowed with breathtaking beauty, is on the eve of celebrating her 30th wedding anniversary and the birth of her first grandchild, when fate drops its card. Whisked away on a late-night spree in a stolen taxi, Ramata finds herself in a seedy bar in a dark neighborhood of Dakar, where she gives in to temptation at the hands of the young Ngor Ndong. What follows is the not unpredictable fall from grace, that costs her her husband, home, and honor. Whether her husband, a powerful and proud Minister of Justice, is...
- 10/12/2009
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