Art & Authenticy

While “Tell Me Who You Are” revolves around interesting topics pertaining to polygamy and feminist ideas, the writing made it difficult to understand the point. The movie was much too long and circular. It was impossible to feel one way towards the main character, Mimi, because she was made into an incredibly irrational character. In […]

“Min ye – Tell me Who You Are” a French play that beautifully and vividly portrays the African culture in all aspects – including marriage, family life, class distinction, gender bias and social traditions and customs. Although, the main story line focuses on Mimi, an independent married woman who cheats on her husband to punish […]

If you want to try another film at Lincoln Center, click here! I don’t like to generalize, but I’m sure the male audience members won’t agree with me when I say Souleymane Cisse was pretty sexist when he wrote Tell Me Who You Are. Polygamy, or the practice of multiple marriages, seems to be the […]

Min Ye or Tell Me Who You Are certainly revealed a new way to look at polygamous marriage for me. The film shows none of the weak and passive personalities I used to associate with wives in polygamous marriage. However, the main character, Mimi, fails to appeal to me despite her strong personality and independent […]

Souleymanne Cisse’s “Tell Me Who You Are” had a common opinion amongst viewers on Thursday nights screening in The New York Film Festival. “This lady is insane, how many times is she going to cheat on her husband?” However, she is not insane, she is a true representation of a real woman. Regardless of class, […]

Watching Min Ye…(Tell Me Who You Are) was like watching Bring  It On replaying itself over and over and over. The level of  immaturity between Mimi, Issa, and Abba makes me wonder if the  producer, Souleymane Cissé, has miscalculated the age of his characters or American teenagers are just growing up to fast.

Maybe I did not pay close enough attention to director Souleymane Cissé’s film, “Min Yé, Tell Me Who You Are”, but I seemed to have missed the main point. The film was meant to portray the injustice the main character Mimi must have felt when her husband Issa married another woman and what she had […]

This movie made me realize how important likeable characters are to a story.  Some films are ‘made’ because of the sheer charisma and likeability of the characters.  This attachment is key because it allows “Suspension of Disbelief” to set in and allow deeper emotional involvement with the plot. As I was watching this movie, I […]

The much-anticipated “Min Yé…(Tell Me Who You Are)” – which premiered in New York’s 47th Film Festival – was the comeback of director Souleymane Cissé after a 14-year absence. Though, as I’m told, this was not his best work, it was still an interesting film. It was my first independent film and while it did […]