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Hyenas
Directed by
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Not Rated
1992
1h 50m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.4
91%
71%
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Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
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Cast of Hyenas
Djibril Diop Mambéty
The Judge
Mansour Diouf
Dramaan
Ami Diakhate
Linguere Ramatou
Makhouredia Gueye
The Mayor
Calgou Fall
The Priest
Faly Gueye
Mme. Drameh
Issa Samb
The Professor
Omar Bah
Chief of Protocol
Kaoru Egushi
Toko
Mbaba Diop
Lord of the Feather
Abdoulaye Diop
The Doctor
Rama Thiaw
The Mayor's Wife
Oumi Samb
Dancer
Tcheley Hanny
Horse Woman
Hyenas Reviews
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
Djibril Diop Mambéty's 1992 film resonates primarily for its lacerating comedic writing and pacing.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Dark political satire about corruption is set in Western Africa.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
Mambéty has spoken of his film as portraying the corrupting influence of Western influence and money on African countries, but there's more than one way to interpret the story.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
This comic masterpiece about a wealthy woman who plunges an African village into chaos is definite in its targets (the persistence of colonialism as consumerism, especially) but universal in its consideration of human existence as both tragedy and farce.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
A wicked skewering of both the rich and those who seek their handouts.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Jas Keimig
The film falls somewhere between satire, drama, and comedy.
In Review Online
Mattie Lucas
A haunting, dreamlike, often absurd morality play, told with roguish mischievousness that only Mambéty could conjure.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Charles Mudede
The greatest film made by a black African is Djibril Diop Mambéty's Hyenas.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Mambety doesn't just point to the evil but fully implicates himself in it-as is shown by the fact that he himself plays the former judge now working as a servant to the rich. Maybe he's saying something about making movies as well.
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