Incandescent portrait of three Ivorian women, “Faces of Women”, by Désiré Ecaré (1939-2009) is released in theaters in a restored version, 35 years after its Cannes screening. Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985, this film then banned by the Ivorian censorship is today a classic. We talk about it with its distributor Gaël Teicher and the critic and journalist Claire Diao.
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“Faces of Women”: a masterpiece of African cinema restored
