#mambar pierrette

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Seen in 2024:

Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mbakam), 2023

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new-to-me #672 - Mambar Pierrette

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"Mambar Pierrette" (2023)

Mambar Pierrette is one of the most extraordinary, unexpected takes on parables. Here the holiness not from grand gestures and giving your life to the poor, but from the mundanity of life as a poor woman in Africa. The title is the main characters name. That way, she's elevated to a very important figure (almost like Job in "The Book of Job" or saints in hagiographical texts). However, that's not where her importance ends.

Mambar is a seamstress, but actually she holds much more status in her village - she's the center of social interactions. She knows everyone, and everyone always comes by to chat. That makes her hyper aware of her surroundings - she never misses anyone going next to her store - but also aware of her economic status. Everyone says they don't have money, everyone asks for a discount, but she knows that they do have money, and she doesn't. When she comes to give a dress to her client, she hears a new TV and sees a return-to-school kit, while she herself doesn't even have a phone and has to take her child's money to buy them anything for school.

This is a fantastic film, which deserves to be seen by more people. A terribly sad, quiet story filled with suffering.

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Mambar Pierrette (Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, 2023)

Cast: Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat, Marguerite Mbakop, Duval Franklin Nwodu Chinedu, Léonce Sonia Bangoub, Chamard Yotchou, Chimène Aboheu, Claire Hiencheu, Marie Noël Nimendeu, Emmanuel Keutagna. Screenplay: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam. Cinematography: Finoa Braillon. Film editing: Geoffroy Cernaix.

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Cinéma réalisé par des femmes.

Brigitte Sy : Le bonheur est pour demain.

Fiona Gordon : L'étoile filante.

Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam : Mambar Pierrette.

Sophie Jeaneau - Magali Debrabandere : Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi Cyrial Lignac?

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Antonio Velardo shares: ‘Mambar Pierrette’ Review: Cosmic Misfortunes by Beatrice Loayza

By Beatrice Loayza A gifted seamstress, played by the filmmaker Rosine Mbakam’s cousin, has to put out a string of fires in this rich portrait of Cameroonian womanhood. Published: January 25, 2024 at 07:00AM from NYT Movies https://ift.tt/FA5EoHn via IFTTT

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NYFF Review: Mambar Pierrette is an Ode to Working-Class Mothers

http://dlvr.it/Swtq50

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LFF2023: The list of films

I should have started from the beginning, so to understand this blog read my mission statement back in 2021 when I thought this was a great idea :-D and then feel free to peruse my reviews of the films, all listed below, and from the previous 2 years as well.

I will link to my musings about each film from here as I progress and I hope to refine them as I revisit them in the future, apologies about the silly mistakes, I am writing of the cuff mostly on my free time, away from my job that has nothing to do with film.

Any comments and suggestions can be done to my twitter X account @allyear_lff ( https://twitter.com/allyear_lff ) and I believe comments are open here in Tumblr.

(Full list of films to be added when published)

20,000 Species of Bees

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

All of Us Strangers

ALLENSWORTH

Àma Gloria

Animal Kingdom, The

Animalia

Anselm

Apolonia, Apolonia (HBO Max Spain)

Asog

Baltimore

Banel & Adama

Beast, The

Behind the Mountains

Bikeriders, The

Birth/Rebirth

Black Dog

Black Pirate, The

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

Bonus Track

Book of Clarence, The

Book of Solutions, The

Boy and the Heron, The (late addition)

Bride, The

Buckingham Murders, The

Bye Bye Tiberias

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (billed as Anita in brochure)

Celluloid Underground

Chasing Chasing Amy

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Close Your Eyes

Cobweb

Common Sequence, A

Copa 71 (available as "Copa 71, the lost Lionesses" in BBC iPlayer from June 2024).

Croma Kid

Daaaaaali!

Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Dancing Queen

Dear Jassi

Deep Sea (3D)

Delinquents, The

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

Dupes, The

Earth Mama

Echo, The

Eileen

End We Start From, The (Curzon Home from March 2024, BFI Player)

Eternal Memory, The (BBC iPlayer, available at least until Feb 2025)

Europa

Everything Worthwhile Is Done with Other People

Evil Does Not Exist

Fallen Leaves

Fancy Dance

Fingernails

Fire Through Dry Grass

Foe

Foremost by Night

Four Daughters

Gasoline Rainbow

Gassed Up

Girl

Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Goldman Case, The

Goodbye Julia

Gush

Haar

High & Low - John Galliano

Hit Man

Hoard

Holdovers, The

Housekeeping for Beginners

How to Have Sex (Curzon Home)

Hypnosis, The

I am Sirat

If Only I Could Hibernate

Indésirables, Les

Inshallah a Boy

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

In Camera (Mubi UK?)

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon

It can’t be that nothing that can be returned

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Kidnapped (UK: Curzon Home Cinema)

Killer, The

Killers of the Flower Moon

Kitchen, The

Klezmer Project, The

Last Summer

Late Night With the Devil

Little Girl Blue

Lost Boys, The (Curzon Home)

Lost in the Night

Lubo

Macario

Maestro

Mambar Pierrette

Mangosteen

May December

Memory

Menu-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

Mission, The

Molli and Max in the Future

Monster

Music

Nature of Love, The

New Boy, The

Nightwatch – Demons Are Forever

NYAD (Netflix)

Occupied City

Omen

On the Adamant

One Life

Only the River Flows

Our Body

Paradise Is Burning

Peasants, The

Peeping Tom

Penal Cordillera

Perfect Days (late addition)

Pigeon Tunnel, The

Poolman

Poor Things

Pot au Feu, The

Power Alley

Practice, The

Pressure

Prince, A

Priscilla

Queen of My Dreams, The

Queendom

Ramona

Red Island (Curzon Home Cinema, BFI Player)

Red Rooms

Robot Dreams

Room in a Crowd

Royal Hotel, The

Rye Horn, The

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus

Sacred Cave, The

Saltburn

Samsara (Curzon Home)

SCALA!!! (BFI Player)

Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

Settlers, The (MUBI)

Shame On Dry Land

Shayda

Shortcomings

Shoshana

Silver Haze

Sky Peals

Slow

Spectre of Boko Haram, The

Starve Acre

Stolen

Stopmotion

Stranger and the Fog, The

Surprise film: Ferrari

Swan Song

Sweet East, The

Taste of Mango, The

Terrestrial Verses

That They May Face the Rising Sun

They Shot the Piano Player

This Is Going to Be Big

Tiger Stripes

Together 99

Tótem (Curzon Home from January 2024)

Tuesday

Unicorns (late addition, Rakuten UK from August 2024) )

Unmoored

Vincent Must Die

Wilding

You Can Call me Bill

Youth (Spring)

Zone of Interest, The