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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) La Petite Vendeuse de soleil [w/Commentary]
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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1034 | x264 @ 10,3 Mbps | 45 min | 3,46 Gb
Audio: Wolof AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1034 | x264 @ 10,3 Mbps | 45 min | 3,46 Gb
Audio: Wolof AC3 5.1 @ 640 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Stars: Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall
A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.
IMDB - 9 wins
Being a poor and handicapped girl in a large West-African city guarantees a life full of hardship. But Sili is determined to take her fate into her own hands. She stops begging and starts to sell the newspaper 'le Soleil'. Although healthy boys dominate this business, she is immediately successful.
The atmosphere of the movie is slightly naïve; Sili successful stands up to policemen and even frees a woman who was imprisoned innocently. Although a bit fairytale-like, the girl Sili is indeed a worthy tribute to the street children of Dakar.
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The Sun is a newspaper, and the girl is a crippled girl living on the streets of Senegal in poverty with her blind grandmother. The film is basically a parable of her fortitude and the adversity she faces, with inspiring gestures of solidarity and thought-provoking elements of strife–even her enemies are sympathetic in the sense that they, too, struggle with poverty. This would be a wonderful film to show to children for discussion.
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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) La Petite Vendeuse de soleil [w/Commentary]
![The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) La Petite Vendeuse de soleil [w/Commentary]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/f0/f0c0/f0c01c804c7d43cf96b1c9c25c5bde02-6588071393566082375.webp)
Audio Commentary by Film Scholar Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D. (in English)
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