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Mossane (Magou Seck) is a beautiful 14-year-old girl from a rural Serer village, beloved by many including her own brother and Fara, a poor university student. Although she has long been promised in marriage to the wealthy Diogaye, Mossane defies her parents' wishes and falls in love with Fara.
Mossane: Directed by Safi Faye. With Magou Seck, Isseu Niang, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara. Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal.
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- Drama
- Safi Faye
- 1998-05-28
- Mossane’S Story
- Theme & Setting
- Aesthetics
- Feminism and Politics in African Cinema
- Filmmaking Process and The Future
Mossane tells a small simple story about the people from a little Serer village in Senegal; it conveys themes of arranged marriage, economic strife, mysticism, and fatal beauty. The film focuses on a 14 year old girl named Mossane: a dark black, courteous beauty who is the center of admiration and attraction in her village. In the first shot, we se...
One of Mossane‘s prominent themes is sex and sensuality. In a scene that stunned audiences back in 1996, Mossane goes to visit her friend Dibor,and we briefly see Dibor having sex with her husband. While she asks her husband to leave quickly because Mossane is too young to understand what they are doing, Dibor goes on to tell Mossane about the ravi...
When asked to describe some of the problems she has noticed with African films, Safi Faye responded saying African films lack the “creation of a new image”. To Faye, if filmmakers, especially those from locations with lower cinematic output, want to be unique, they must think of and create something new while capturing images on screen. With the he...
African cinema doesn’t lack feminist stories, even among the dominant male filmmakers. For example, Moolade (Ousmane Sembene, 2005), Black Girl ( Ousmane Sembene, 1966), Taafe Fanga (Adama Drabo, 1997), and Sia, The Dream of the Python (Dani Kouyaté, 2001) all have female characters that are well rounded, unique fighters. It’s fascinating how well ...
Safi Faye completed shooting Mossane in 1990. However, she had to fight in court for six years with a French producer who, according to an interview, acquired the film’s rights, as well as funding from Italy and Switzerland, without her knowledge. This horrible experience, filled with struggle and uncertainty explains why Faye never made another fi...
Mossane (Magou Seck) is a beautiful 14 year old girl from a rural Serer village, beloved by many including her own brother and Fara, a penniless university student. Although she has long been promised in marriage to the wealthy Diogaye, Mossane defies her parents' wishes and falls in love with Fara.
Safi Faye (November 22, 1943 – February 22, 2023) was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. [1] She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.
Mossane, a 14-year-old girl whose legendary beauty is beloved by humans and spirits alike, falls in love with a poor student, Fara, but is betrothed to her family’s wealthy benefactor, Diogoye, who resides in France. When Diogoye calls for Mossane to be wed to him in his absence and sent to France, she rebels and escapes the wedding ceremony.
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Safi FAYE. A young, tall and black girl…Mossane’s beauty, recognised and praised by everyone, creates only conflicts and disagreements in this part of the bush, which is generally quite peaceful. No one can resist the “pearl” of Mbissel, a village founded in the fourteenth century by a king.
