The Heart of Madame Sabali
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| Directed by | Ryan McKenna |
| Produced by | Ménaïc Raoul Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette Becca Blackwood |
| Written by | Ryan McKenna Becca Blackwood |
| Starring | Marie Brassard Francis La Haye Youssef Camara |
| Music by | Amadou & Mariam Tyler Fitzmaurice Matthew Otto Andres Vial |
| Cinematography | Ian Lagarde |
| Edited by | Ryan McKenna |
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Voyelles Films
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| Distributed by | K Films Amérique |
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79 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The Heart of Madame Sabali (French: Le Cœur de Madame Sabali) is a 2015 tragicomic feature film by Canadian director Ryan McKenna.[1] It stars Marie Brassard, Amadou & Mariam, Youssef Camara and Paul Ahmarani.
The film won the Focus Grand Prize for Canadian/Québec Film at the 2015 Festival de nouveau Cinéma.[2]
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Plot
Jeannette (Brassard) is a white Québécois woman with a severe heart condition living in a suburb of Montreal. After undergoing transplant surgery where she receives the heart of a Malian woman named Madame Sabali, she begins to experience flashbacks of her donor's brutal murder. Soon thereafter, Jeannette becomes friends with Madame Sabali's son Chibale (Camara), who believes she is the reincarnation of his mother.[3]
Response
The film won the Grand Prix Focus at the 2015 Festival du nouveau cinéma, and Brassard received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015.
References
- ↑ T'cha Dunlevy, "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2015.
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Heart of Madame Sabali at IMDb
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