We had left Robert Guédiguian in Marseille in
Gloria Mundi
, a horribly reactionary film, overwhelming the youth with all evils (debauchery, greed), under the disillusioned gaze of his generation (he is 68 years old). The director of
Marius and Jeannette
could not do worse.
Twist in Bamako
offers him an opportunity to redeem himself. Although, by filming young people in love with dance and freedom in Mali in 1962, Guédiguian once again suggests that it was better before. But he does so elsewhere, in foreign lands, in a country that is barely independent,
"freed from French colonial tutelage",
as its hero says, Samba (Stéphane Bak).
This son of a wealthy trader from Bamako has the revolution firmly in place.
He travels the country led by Modibo Keïta, pan-Africanist and Third Worldist president, to explain to peasants and villagers the virtues of socialism and cooperatives.
This does not prevent him from falling in love with Lara, a young girl forcibly married to a bittern.
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