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User Rating:
7.2/10   231 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Rachid Bouchareb (writer)
Olivier Lorelle (writer)
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Release Date:
18 April 2001 (France) more
Genre:
Awards:
9 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
very honest, modest, counter-Hollywood style and held-back film more (3 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Sotigui Kouyaté ... Alloune
Sharon Hope ... Ida
Roschdy Zem ... Karim
Karim Traoré ... Hassan (as Karim Koussein Traoré)
Adetoro Makinde ... Amaralis
Adja Diarra ... Biram
Malaaika Lacario ... Eileen
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Deen Badarou ... Mohammed - Cab Driver

Ismail Bashey ... Foreman

Will Blagrove ... Karim's friend (as William Blagrove)
Eloi Cloy ... Curator

Toy Connor ... Girl
Daryl Edwards ... Customer
Ron C. Jones ... Westley
Ahmed Ben Larby ... Shop Owner

Frank Mayers ... Syd
David Langston Smyrl ... Landlord
Ankhasanamen Stone ... American Woman
Moctar Teyeb ... Imam
Cheryl L. Williams ... American Woman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Little Senegal (Spain) [es]
Pikku-Senegal (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
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Runtime:
97 min
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Certification:
Australia:M | France:U | Spain:13 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)
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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
very honest, modest, counter-Hollywood style and held-back film, 28 April 2006
8/10
Author: huh_oh_i_c from Earth, Solar system

Little Senegal has this very sparse style, about a Senegalese man searching for the descendants of his enslaved family, 300 years later. Especially the beginning of the film, with all the old white Southerners is reminiscent of the Golden Age of American cinema, the Seventies ('They shoot horses, don't they?', 'Lolly-Madonna' etc.)

It's so refreshing to watch a film and not hear a constant jitter of back ground music, aiming for music-CD sales. I guess that 75 percent of this film doesn't have ANY music whatsoever. This film respects the viewer, and doesn't waste time with showing scenes that aren't really necessary. In your average Hollywood flic, you would have seen scenes that would be about the main characters not understanding each other, and conflict-scenes. Not so in this one. We jump from scene to scene, while everybody harmonically agrees.

In the middle of the film, Alloune (Sotigui Kouyaté) finds happiness with Ida (Shareon Hope). It's maybe unkind to say, but he looks a lot worse when he's happy and he has a big smile.

Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks that this film is a gem, NINE WINS? Well done.

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