If you loved Ceddo, try Xala
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Ousmane Sembène, and they both carry the cerebral mood tag. If that's the register that drew you to Ceddo, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
cerebral
What Xala is
Ousmane Sembène makes a pointed film about post-colonial Africa using the broadest possible comedy. A Senegalese businessman suffers a curse of impotence on his wedding night. It's a very literal metaphor, in case anyone was wondering.

