On Sat., 27. March 2010<\/b> at 19h<\/b> AfricAvenir Windhoek in co-operation with Studio 77, Pro Helvetia Cape Town, Bank Windhoek Arts Festival, HEC, and FNCC presents in the series \u201cAfrican Perspectives\u201d the movie Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gor\u00e9e, a musical road movie telling the story of Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour’s epic journey following the trail left by enslaved Africans and by the jazz music they invented. Entrance: 10,- N$.<\/p>\n
Date: Sat., 27. March 2010
Time: 19h00
Venue: Studio 77
Entrance: 10,- N$<\/p>\n
With a musical live performance by \u201cTONETiC\u201d.<\/p>\n
Information about the film<\/b><\/p>\n
Youssou N’Dour: Return to Gor\u00e9e
Director: Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
Country: Senegal\/Switzerland\/Luxembourg
Year: 2006
Minutes:108
Language:English and French with English subtitles <\/p>\n
Synopsis:<\/b>
The musical road movie, Return to Gor\u00e9e, tells of Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour’s epic journey following the trail left by enslaved Africans and by the jazz music they invented.nYoussou N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Goree, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his mission by the blind pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N’Dour travels across the United States of America and Europe. Accompanied by some of the world’s most exceptional musicians, they meet peoples and well known figures, and create, through concerts, encounters and debates, music which transcends cultural division.nFrom Atlanta to New Orleans, from New York to Bordeaux and Luxemburg the songs are transformed, immersed in jazz and gospel. But the day of their return to Africa is fast approaching and much remains to be done to be ready for the final concert…<\/p>\n
Press Statements: <\/b>
Conversations full of memorable words and what can only be called \u2018genuineness\u2019 push Youssou N\u2019Dour: Return to Gor\u00e9e into the realm of unforgetable filmmaking. (Jonathan Curiel, 19.09.2009, San Francisco Chronicle)<\/p>\n
The serious undertones of the film are very real and played out with rapture. (Matthew Nestel, 03.09.2008, Boxoffice Magazine)<\/p>\n
A wondrous trip with Africa’s greatest singer as he bonds with his musical brethren in the New World. (Louis Proyect, 29.08.2008, rec.arts.movies.reviews)nA picture which chillingly conveys a palpable sense of what being a direct victim of slavery might have felt like and why the fallout from that evil institution persists to this day like the proverbial ripples on a pond. (Kam Williams , 26.08.2008, NewsBlaze)<\/p>\n
Points to Bourgeaud for not whitewashing the beautifully awkward moments of cultural misunderstanding. (Aaron Hillis, 27.08.2008, Village Voice)<\/p>\n
Trace[s] influences and celebrate connections with tunes to make you tap and sway. (Jeannette Catsoulis, 29.08.2008, New York Times)<\/p>\n
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