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: Not Rated
: New Yorker Video
: Comedies, Foreign, Black Comedy, France, Africa, Senegal
: 123 min.
: French, Wolof
: English
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Xala is a Sengalese social comedy, filmed in the Wolof language. A rich, corrupt business executive marries for the third time for the express purpose of getting his name in the papers. After a disappointing wedding night, the businessman discovers that he's impotent. As he goes through a series of "cures" (including several tinged with witchcraft), his prestige in the communities dwindles along with his sense of manhood. It didn't take critics long to ascertain that Xala was designed as an allegorical attack on African neo-colonialism. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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