Filmed 2023-10-10
Rosine Mbakam
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman and Mambar Pierrette talks about being inspired by Ousmane Sembène and shares how Abbas Kiarostami’s films freed her to blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction.
What they took
4 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Mandabi, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mandabi | Ousmane Sembène | 1968 |
| 2 |  Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | 1966 |
| 3 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 4 |  Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
Senegal accounts for two of their four single films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. This visit took 4, so it sits out of the comparison.
Their decades
Their four single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.