| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 min.) |
| Summary |
Les Saignantes is the best African sci-fi vampire political satire with homoerotic overtones you've ever seen. Best friends Majolie and Chouchou are two beautiful young women trying to get ahead in a near-future Cameroon. After accidentally killing a powerful politician during sex, the two come up with a plot to dispose of the body, and get into the glamorous wakes that have taken over the local nightlife ... As the girls tear their way through the corrupt ruling class, using their feminine wiles and magical powers, Bekolo drops inter-titles into the film, commenting on the difficulties of filmmaking in an oppressive political climate. With a feminist subtext and cinematography like a blacklight rave, Les Saignantes is a beautiful, disorienting, and truly original work |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005 |
| Credits |
Music, Joëlle Esso, Adam Zanders ; cinematography, Robert Humphreys |
| Cast |
Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Josephine Ndagnou, Emile Abossolo, Essindi Mindja, Alain Dzukam |
| Notes |
In French with English subtitles |
| Subject |
Dictators -- Cameroon -- Drama
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Prostitutes -- Cameroon -- Drama
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Corruption -- Cameroon -- Drama
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Women -- Cameroon -- Social conditions -- Drama
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Vampire films
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Vampire films
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Corruption
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Dictators
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Prostitutes
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Women -- Social conditions
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Cameroon
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Action and adventure films
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Drama
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Feature films
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Fiction films
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Science fiction films
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Science fiction films.
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Action and adventure films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Films de science-fiction.
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Films d'aventures.
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Films de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Bekolo, Jean-Pierre, film director, film producer, screenwriter
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Ado, Adèle, actor
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Calmel, Dorylia, actor
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Ndagnou, Josephine, actor
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Abossolo, Emile, actor
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Mindja, Essindi, actor
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Esso, Joëlle, composer (expression)
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Zanders, Adam, composer (expression)
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Humphreys, Robert, director of photography
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Quartier Mozart Films
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Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (France)
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Cameroon. Ministry of Culture
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Immeuble Bekolo
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