Plot Summary: This beautifully photographed, touching film follows
Alloune, a man who gives tours of the Senegal coastline where long ago
his ancestors where imprisoned and shipped across the Atlantic in the
slave trade. Through a slender doorway looking out to the wide ocean
beyond, participants in Alloune's tour are moved, saddened, and
quieted by the thought of what once was. Then one day, Alloune decides
that he must track the path of his own ancestors, and so he travels to
the southern United States. He wanders from one former plantation to
the next, asking questions, looking in libraries, and researching an
extended family tree, always carrying the weight of history on his
small, long, thin frame. Finally his search leads him to New York
City, where he locates a young nephew, and then a female cousin who is
about his same age, in her fifties. Taking a job for his cousin as a
security guard at her Harlem newspaper stand, Alloune begins the
difficult task of adapting to city life. The relationship between
Alloune and his cousin starts off as professional, changes to family
relation, and finally ends up as a love affair. However, the distance
between Africa and New York, history and present, can never be escaped
or forgotten.
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Rachid Bouchareb - Little Senegal (2001)
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