Three Tales from Senegal: Le Franc, Picc Mi (Little…
Djibril Diop Mambety's La petite vendeuse de Soleil were subsequently released as Tales of Ordinary People also now discontinued.
"Le Franc uses the backdrop of the franc devaluation to give us some of the most fantastic, magic-realist moments in African cinema...So surreal it creates an African sublime."
Village Voice
"Mambety's work has been compared to Godard, and it's easy to see why...A comedic, well-told and visually poetic story."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
"A melody of love to the disinherited of the earth."
Il Manifesto
"The film is so irresistibly funny, one thinks of Jacques Tati."
Pardo News
Three Tales from Senegal: Le Franc, Picc Mi (Little…