My Voice
Directed by Flora GomesIt has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than later her mother in Africa will learn that she sings. To solve this dilemma she goes back to her native village and arranges her own funeral, albeit with instantaneous rebirth. She is lying in the coffin while all invited guest form a queue and pass the coffin one by one. When she needs go to the toilet a boy will take her place. And then one of the guests says: How different she looks after having died. Is this an allusion to Bergman's movie "Now About These Women"?
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My Voice was released on 26 juni 2002.
My Voice was directed by Flora Gomes.
My Voice has a runtime of 86 m.
My Voice was produced by Luís Galvão Teles, Jani Thiltges, Serge Zeitoun.
It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than later her mother in Africa will learn that she sings. To solve this dilemma she goes back to her native village and arranges her own funeral, albeit with instantaneous rebirth. She is lying in the coffin while all invited guest form a queue and pass the coffin one by one. When she needs go to the toilet a boy will take her place. And then one of the guests says: How different she looks after having died. Is this an allusion to Bergman's movie "Now About These Women"?
The key characters in My Voice are Vita (Fatou N'Diaye), Pierre (Jean-Christophe Dollé), Yano (Ângelo Torres).
My Voice is a Komedie, Musical, Drama film.
My Voice has an audience rating of 6.3 out of 10.
My Voice has made US$ 13.595 at the box office.