La Vie Sur Terre (Sissako, 1998) is about the last day before the year 2000 in Mali. While somewhat slow moving, it reflects the everyday life of in this African town that is difficult to translate to an unknowing audience.
According to an essay I found, this film is Sissako’s “contribution to French commemorations to the new millennium. Ten independent filmmakers were invited to make a film about the last day of the twentieth century in their countries of origin.” Sissasko was born in Mauritania, studied film in the Soviet Union and now lives in France. His approach to the film was to illustrate the life of his father’s village and deals with exile and the isolation from Europe. This is shown through villagers attentiveness to the radio and the village telephone use.
While many audiences may disconnect from this film, it is significant because of how realistic it is, almost as if it were a documentary. The shots of the villagers hiding from the scorching sun, the landscape and more support this theme.
http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/4/443
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