Ainsi Meurent Les Anges (Y así mueren los ángeles)

sinopsis

Mory vive en Francia desde hace varios años. Tiene muchos amigos y se casa con una europea con la que tiene tres hijos. Sin embargo, en su pueblo senegalés, su prometida, Coumba, sigue esperando su regreso, y sus parientes pierden la paciencia. Tras muchas dudas, Mory regresa a casa, pero ¿cómo les contará su engaño?

sobre el director

Moussa Sène Absa was born in 1958 in Senegal. After starting a career as an actor, he won awards for his short films, documentaries, and features. He is also a painter and author. He exemplifies the “homo senegalensis”, an ideal of an artist, which was dear to Léopold Sédar Senghor, rooted in tradition but fully willing to use what the Western world has to offer. Ironically, Absa is more famous internationally than he is in his own country despite exposure to a large audience in Senegal through the TV series Goorgoorlu, written by TT Fons and produced by the national Senegalese television (RTS). His first film Le Prix du mensonge (The Price of Lies) earned him the Tanit d’Argent (Silver Tanit) at the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (Carthage Film Festival) in 1988. Tableau Ferraille, released in 1996, earned him several awards including Best Cinematography at FESPACO in 1997. His 2002 romantic comedy, Madame Brouette, won the Poitou Charentes Award at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 2003.

Sus dos últimos largometrajes, Teranga Blues y Yoole fueron seleccionados a concurso en FESPACO en 2007 y 2013.

(Festival de Cine Africano, Nueva York)