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Timbuktu
Directed by
Abderrahmane Sissako
PG-13
2014
1h 36m
Drama
,
War
7.1
98%
77%
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A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
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Cast of Timbuktu
Ibrahim Ahmed
Kidane
Toulou Kiki
Satima
Layla Walet Mohamed
Toya
Abel Jafri
Abdelkrim
Kettly Noël
Zabou
Hichem Yacoubi
Jihadist
Mehdi A.G. Mohamed
Issan
Fatoumata Diawara
Singer
Adel Mahmoud Cherif
The Imam
Salem Dendou
Jihadist leader
Mamby Kamissoko
Jihadist
Yoro Diakité
Jihadist
Cheik A.G. Emakni
Omar
Zikra Oualet Moussa
Tina
Weli Kleïb
Judge
Djié Sidi
Judge
Omar Haidara
Amadou
Damien Ndjie
Abu Jaafar
Abderrahmane Sissako
Director / Writer
Kessen Tall
Writer
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Producer
Sylvie Pialat
Producer
Étienne Comar
Producer
Timbuktu Ratings & Reviews
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
Calling Sissako a brilliant filmmaker is an understatement.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
For a film that makes you sick with dread, Timbuktu has a light, at times glancing touch.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
Director Abderrahmane Sissako, a Muslim from neighboring Mauritania, has made a movie that is worthy of comparisons on several levels to Terrence Malick's wheat-field tragedy "Days of Heaven."
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
The performances are hushed and memorable. Cinematographer Sofian El Fanicaptures the beauty of this desert land. Amine Bouhafa's score is its own act of gorgeous grace and defiance.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film is a magnificent document of secular humanism.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
Even though the atrocities committed by radical jihadists dominate the headlines and airwaves, few in the West know what it's like to live under their reign. Timbuktu...is a moving, haunting and beautifully shot peek behind the closed cultural curtain.
Detroit News
Tom Long
This is the clash of ancient and modern, of rulers and ruled, of rabid dogma and the joys of daily life. It is a portrait of the ugly folly of imposed ideology, a too-common condition for far too many.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
A transcendent political poem as intellectually rigorous as it is beautiful.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Jihadism is perpetually ablaze in the news, but the Mauritanian movie Timbuktu, a nominee for the best foreign film Oscar, gives those who suffer its condemnations a searingly human face.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Sissako achieves the daunting task of humanizing the villains by playing on audience expectations and preconceptions.
The New Republic
Ethan Gates
Abderrahmane Sissako's sad, handsome film is a response, a supplement, and a protest to the horrors that flash by on the news.
Newsday
John Anderson
Elegantly artful, maddeningly truthful.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
In providing audiences a chance to bear witness to unspeakable suffering as well as dazzling defiance and human dignity, Sissako has created a film that's a privilege to watch.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"Timbuktu" is a terrific film, a quiet work of savage truth.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
Dazzling and morally devastating ...
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
An extraordinary accomplishment, a heartbreaking, visually spectacular and largely accessible work from a cinematic master who is more than ready for international attention.
New York Daily News
Graham Fuller
This unforgettable tragi-comedy shows a cross-section of ordinary Mali people trying to live normally while being harassed by swaggering jihadists toting Kalashnikov rifles.
NPR
David Edelstein
A film that's a mix of tones, of satire and melodrama and tragedy, that somehow jells.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
A provocative, sometimes satiric drama about the sort of Islamic extremists who make life, especially in the outer reaches, so treacherous these days.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
[Sissako] has made a film of unforgettable anger, yet tempered his outrage with humor, compassion and visual poetry.
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