YOUSSOU N’DOUR: RETURN TO GOREE (Retour a Goree)
Torn from the Motherland: Films from the African Diaspora
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• Written and directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud • Co-written by Emmanuel Getaz • Music by Youssou N’Dour and Moncef Genoud • Senegal/Switzerland/Luxembourg, ArtMattan, 2006, color, 90 min. • English and French with English subtitles  With a profound knowledge of the rich roots and a new understanding of the broad branches of his motherland’s music, N’Dour takes his new songs and arrangements to be performed with world-class musicians in Europe before traveling to Goree, off the Senegalese coast. There, at the place where the known world ended for the newly enslaved of the 15th-19th centuries, Youssou N’Dour gives a most meaningful and powerful concert. -- Chale Nafus |
November 6, 2007, 7pm Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Read the Program Notes Ticket information• Admission free to AFS members
• Admission $4 for all others • Remaining tickets available at Alamo on night of screening |
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