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'Gripping, moving, thought-provoking and original'
- Marcel Berlins, THE GUARDIAN
 (FILM OF THE WEEK)
'Brimming with ideas... wisdom and passion... a screaming wake-up call to Africa and the rest of
the world... it makes the biggest of points with the smallest of gestures... this remarkable and
stirring film that shows once again that the best of African cinema is without genre and brims
with intelligence and responsibility…The idea is odd and brilliant... BAMAKO is sharp satire as
well as political drama...'
- Dave Calhoun, TIME OUT
'One of Africa’s leading directors... Remarkable... widely regarded as the most rewarding film-
maker now working in Africa... Lyrical, elliptical, witty, moving, subtly yet profoundly political...
an extraordinary movie that embraces courtroom drama, satire, domestic drama, Brechtian para-
ble, the musical and western parody...'
- Geoff Andrew, TIME OUT
'A fierce critique of Western involvement in African countries... a rightly angry film... lucid, impas-
sioned and moving... Playful in its approach but deadly serious in impact'
- Edward Lawrenson, THE BIG ISSUE
'Ground-breaking... a thought-provoking film... unique'
- Derek Malcolm, EVENING STANDARD
'A cause for celebration... an extraordinary film, pulsing with human drama, gently comic, fiercely
lyrical in its investigation of the social crises that have affected Africa over the past few dec-
ades... attractively photographed by Jacques Besse... The script contains speeches so pas-
sionate, unsentimental and moving…extraordinarily powerful...'
- Sukhdev Sandhu, DAILY TELEGRAPH
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