The Bloodiest

The Bloodiest (Les Saignantes)
Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Cameroon, 2007, Color, 97’

In the dark of the night partly illuminated by city lights, two young women try to get rid of the dead body of an influential statesman. While working to this end, young women live through strange experiences in futuristic spaces, and a mysterious feministic force called Mevungu backs them. One of the most thought provoking African films, this work seems like a video parody, but it is most of all significant due to Bekolo’s incredible mastery in a specific editing style: successive Godardian jump cuts, dissolves, superimposed images and the resulting colorful, unexpectedly rich audiovisual texture.