Timbuktu was made in 2014 and is a very probable Oscar winner for the best foreign language film. It is on at the Queryls tomorrow at 8.30pm with English subtitles and again on Monday at 5 pm.
Malc and I went tonight with a friend and we watched in stunned silence. It is a beautiful film, beautifully shot and beautifully paced but nothing else about it is beautiful. The ten people tonight in the Queryls who had bothered to go and see it sat in stunned silence at the end. We discussed it on the drive all the way home, the sign of a good film.
It was sad and sadder still to know a lot of these events happened.
We reported it a lot on TAG last year as this French speaking former colony was invaded in the North of Mali by extreme Islamists, sharia law fighters. Malc and I were interested on two counts. We are very involved with raising money for Malian children and having an interest in books we were concerned for the ancient library at Timbuktu.
Tonight the film showed how these extremists threatened, terrorised and killed the law abiding citizens.After seeing this film I am proud that the French army liberated these people from their terrible would be masters. To my mind the best film seen for a long time dealing with serious issues and my stand up and be counted to stop the rise of extremism seemed even more valid as we drove home.
I am looking forward to having a laugh with Paddington Bear later this month but this film is one Malc and I were glad we had seen, even though after the recent terrorists attacks it was hard to bear.
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