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Essential Cinema: Xala
April 26, 2011
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In post-colonial Senegal a group of businessmen become power brokers allied with the country’s new president. Espousing socialism, they happily accept huge bribes offered by representatives of French business interests. But Hadji Aboucader Beye illegally sells government rice to gain enough money to take a third, younger wife. As a Muslim he may do so, but as a man he is finished when he becomes the victim of xala, the curse of impotence. Just as the government preaches socialism but practices crony capitalism, this Muslim man returns to the use of fetishes in hopes of restoring his virility. Sembene took a comical situation and turned it into a biting satire of the people who had taken power in his native country.
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Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar
1120 South Lamar
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Free for AFS Members / $8 Gen Adm.
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April 26, 2011Times:
7pm
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