The Woman with the Knife (1969)
- Original title
- La femme au couteau
- Directed by
- Timité Bassori
- Genre
- drama film, thriller film
- Country
- Ivory Coast
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man is haunted by a mysterious woman who carries a knife. The film explores his mental state as reality and fantasy blur.
dreamlikeunsettlingpsychologicalalienatingbafflinghypnoticdarkmoody
What happens
The Woman with the Knife (Original title: La femme au couteau) is a 1969 Ivorian French-language drama / thriller film directed by Timité Bassori. It is the director's only feature-length film, and one of the first feature-length films from Côte d’Ivoire. It is considered a classic of African cinema, and was restored as part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative to preserve 50 African films through the collaboration of the groups FEPACI, UNESCO, Cineteca di Bologna, and Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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