Why it's on MuvieStars
Djibril Diop Mambéty's Cannes-selected classic transforms The Visit into a biting Senegalese satire about money, vengeance and the price of collective conscience.
About the film
A wealthy woman returns to the impoverished Senegalese town that rejected her decades earlier. She offers its residents financial salvation on one condition: they must kill the man who once betrayed her, testing the community's professed morality.
Cultural context
Senegal-Switzerland-France production; Wolof. Adapted from Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit. Original year is 1992; JHR's 2019 date refers to the French restoration release. Cannes and Swiss Films specify 110 minutes; filmingo specifies 111.
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