‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Is Mainstream Filmmaking With a Twist
If ever there was a movie intended to push some hot buttons, surely this is it, as director Robert Jules Guédiguian touches on colonialism, racism, socialism, capitalism, Islamism, sexism, and more.

“Dancing the Twist in Bamako,” a new feature film from French director Robert Jules Guédiguian, is a conundrum. If ever there was a movie intended to push some hot buttons, surely this is it. What contentious subject doesn’t the picture glance upon? You name it, Mr. Guédiguian brings it on: colonialism, racism, socialism, capitalism, Islamism, sexism, and, undoubtedly, at least one -ism I’ve left off the list.
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