Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Sissako deflates this tension with laughs for a time, before changing gears again and using the comedy again as contrast to a story that is almost unfathomably disturbing.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A spiritually powerful critique of Islamic fundamentalism and the havoc it causes in Timbuktu in 2012.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Con una belleza formal casi poética, el director logra mostrar lo que está mal en el estao islámico, sin caer nunca en el panfleto.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Rather than shock, Sissako envelops us in a heavy sadness as beauty and happiness is destroyed by the same species who had created it…
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Visualmente “Timbuktú” es muy elegante, ya que está llena de planos muy bien compuestos y bonitos, y la carga de denuncia que tiene es excelente, pero narrativamente es floja, y muchas veces resulta confusa y poco emocionante.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The film’s approach is meticulous and unwavering.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Timbuktu’ – An Important Film Whose Little Moments Are More Compelling Than Its Story
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Carson Lund @ In Review Online
- Excerpt: Given the relatively neglected place of African cinema in film history, one could make the argument that any buzzed-about moving image work from the continent is owed special consideration. Add to that writer/director Abderrahmane Sissako’s abiding concern for stirring the pot of his nation’s fractious political landscape and you have mandatory viewing.
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: It’s the little, everyday repression that makes life under “Islamic” thugs so unbearable
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: Sissako is too good a filmmaker to merely vent his anger. His critiques here are deeply felt, but drawn in human terms and, hence, undeniable.
- [New – 12/31/15] | Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: The jihadists are like an Arab Ku Klux Klan, another society of masked self-righteous hypocrites, fueled by religion, who have used terror and murder in an attempt to bend a society to its will.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]