Retour à Gorée (2007)

Directed by

Pierre-Yves Borgeaud

Genre

documentary film

Country

France, Switzerland, Luxembourg

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

12

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary follows singer Youssou N'Dour as he travels across the United States and Europe. He aims to gather jazz musicians and bring their music back to the island of Goree in Africa, a historic site of the slave trade.

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What happens

Retour à Gorée (English: Return to Gorée) is a 2007 musical documentary road movie directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, featuring singer Youssou N'Dour's journey along the trail left by slaves and by the jazz music they invented. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in Goree, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its victims. Guided in his mission by the pianist Moncef Genoud, Youssou N'Dour travels across the United States of America and Europe. Accompanied by some of the world's most exceptional musicians, they meet peoples and well known figures, and create, through concerts, encounters and debates. Their music transcends cultural division. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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