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Timbuktu
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Timbuktu was inspired by the true story of a Muslim couple, who were stoned to death in 2012. The plot revolves around the repressive lives of people under the regime of radical Islamists in Timbuktu - an ancient West African city .
Timbuktu was inspired by the true story of a Muslim couple, who were stoned to death in 2012. The plot revolves around the repressive lives of people under the regime of radical Islamists in Timbuktu - an ancient West African city .
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March 03, 2016
Suffers from a certain reductionism with respect to the jihadists but then again that is to be expected in an epoch when Islam is a dirty word almost universally. Could have been better but still worth seeing.
July 19, 2016
Timbuktu is a film that should resonate for a long time to come.
Denver Post
March 13, 2015
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.
January 25, 2016
'Timbuktu' startles by acknowledging the humanity of jihadists, even as it tacitly condemns their dogmas and especially their violence.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
February 26, 2015
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.
March 07, 2017
Calling Sissako a brilliant filmmaker is an understatement.
December 30, 2015
For a film that makes you sick with dread, Timbuktu has a light, at times glancing touch.
June 28, 2016
A haunting warning cry from a great North African director about the jihadi invasion of Mali, Timbuktu is a message the rest of the world can't afford to ignore.
February 20, 2015
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.
June 06, 2016
Abderrahmane Sissako can no longer be called one of the greatest African directors of our time; he has become, simply, one of the greatest directors of our time.
March 19, 2015
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."
February 20, 2015
A transcendent political poem as intellectually rigorous as it is beautiful.