Hyènes

One of the treasures of African cinema, Mambéty's long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit, which in Mambéty's version has a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: Her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. Per its title, a film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose once-lofty post-colonial dreams have been eroded by western materialism.