Djibril Diop Mambéty's film offers a restless, darkly funny, determinedly weird twist on the lovers-on-the-run story that doubles as look at Senegal at a turning point in its history.
OK, I read it as "ironic" on purpose in the same way that the stars-and-stripes imagery is ironic in EASY RIDER. Specifically, I took your meaning to be "here are these cool-looking rebellious figures but there are limits to their ability to rebel." It was an excellent point that you did not mean to make!
Regarding the tape loops on the soundtrack — I remember Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song having a soundtrack with intensely layered sound collages. Could that be a predecessor?
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From the context, it seems like the word Scott dreads to use should be “iconic,” not “ironic.”
Yep. Damn, at least it wasn't super-important to the graf or anything.
OK, I read it as "ironic" on purpose in the same way that the stars-and-stripes imagery is ironic in EASY RIDER. Specifically, I took your meaning to be "here are these cool-looking rebellious figures but there are limits to their ability to rebel." It was an excellent point that you did not mean to make!
Regarding the tape loops on the soundtrack — I remember Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song having a soundtrack with intensely layered sound collages. Could that be a predecessor?
Oh yeah. Good point. That film becomes hypnotic as it goes along.
released in 1971