In Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s oblique debut feature 'Banel & Adama,' a couple must fight against the odds for the survival of their love. 'Banel & Adama' Review: Love and Duty Clash in a Senegal-Set Debut ...

The notebook bears the mark of obsession: The names Banel and Adama are recorded dozens of times across pages in delicate cursive. The scribe is Banel (Khady Mane), a mercurial and expressive ...

Banel, played by the revelatory Khady Mane, is a romantic, and when we meet her she is hopelessly in love with Adama (Mamadou Diallo), her childhood sweetheart.

‘Banel & Adama’ Review: Love Is Challenged by Drought and Superstition in a Dreamlike Debut Reviewed in Cannes Film Festival (Competition), May 20, 2023. Running time: 87 MIN.

The interlinked names of the lovers have an unusual power in Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s haunting, halting “Banel & Adama.” They play over and over as a whispery lullaby on the soundtrack. They ...

After Banel’s first husband died by falling down an open well, Muslim tradition decreed that his younger brother, Adama, marry the widow — a stroke of luck as this is a true love marriage.

Banel & Adama Not rated. Animal lovers should note that a few animals seem to be killed onscreen, and a dead cow is butchered. In Pular and Rula, with subtitles.

Banel is convinced it will be perfect homes for them away from everyone else. In a community bound by tradition and in the grip of a fearsome drought, this plan is ridiculed by anyone around them.

Cannes: ‘Banel & Adama’ Director Ramata-Toulaye Sy on Creating “A Tragic Heroine on the Level of Medea, but With an African Background” The French-Senegalese filmmaker tells THR why she ...