Touki Bouki

Director Djibril Diop Mambéty drank like Sam Peckinpah and was as disinterested in polish and the niceties of synch sound as Orson Welles. At the age of 28 he made a caustic road movie, Touki Bouki (1973), Africa's equivalent of Easy Rider or A bout de souffle. Author of African Cinema Manthia Diawara wrote that Touki Bouki "tears up the screen with fantasies of African modernity never before seen in film".