Sunday 29 November 4pm at Barbican
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1990 this is a tale of forbidden love, honor, and revenge, a young man begins a secret affair with his ex-fiancee, who is now his father’s wife. The relationship is deemed incestuous by the village, so the young lovers flee, in hopes of living outside the reach of “tilaï”–the law.
‘Only an enormously sophisticated filmmaker could discover such depth in such simplicity’ – The New York Times
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
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Country: Switzerland/UK/France/Burkina Faso/Germany
Year: 1990
Runtime: 81 min
