Showcase of the 2021 Winning Feature Film…..
TONTON MANU, 90 minutes, USA, Music Documentary
Directed by Patrick Puzenat, Thierry Dechilly
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Smiling like a kid, he blows out his birthday cake candles, followed by applause. An hour and half later, he is eighty-five years old. Between these two milestone birthdays, the film directors followed in the day to day footsteps of this smiling, debonair giant; for whom the expression, “quiet strength” seems to have been coined. Composer, musician, journalist, an ambassador of the Francophone world, honoured and distinguished around the world; Manu Dibango has remained himself wherever he may find himself. To the greats of this world, he speaks without flattery, and addresses the lowly with respect, without any condescension. During these five years, from Paris to Douala, from Kinshasa to Rio, from New York to Saint Calais, a small village in La Sarthe where he spent part of his childhood, a curious, open, joyful, honest and caring Manu Dibango crossed fellow brethren.
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News & Reviews
- “Un an après la mort de Manu Dibango, un film et un disque lui rendent hommage”Le Parisienhttps://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/musique/un-an-apres-la-mort-de-manu-dibango-un-film-et-un-disque-lui-rendent-hommage-23-03-2021-8429549.php
- “Manu Dibango : le célèbre saxophoniste est décédé des suites du Covid-19″Courrier Internationalhttps://www.courrierinternational.com/article/vu-dafrique-manu-dibango-le-celebre-saxophoniste-est-decede-des-suites-du-covid-19
- “Le Cameroun pleure Manu Dibango, sa « légende », son « icône »”Le Monde Afriquehttps://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2020/03/25/le-cameroun-pleure-manu-dibango-sa-legende-son-icone_6034381_3212.html
- “Série – Hommage à Manu Dibango, itinéraire musical d’un monstre sacré”France Culturehttps://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/a-voix-nue/manu-dibango-itineraire-musical-dun-monstre-sacre
- “Notre hommage au grand Manu Dibango, le gars de la campagne”Les Inrockuptibleshttps://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/notre-hommage-au-grand-manu-dibango-le-gars-de-la-campagne-147397-24-03-2020/
- “Celebrating a global music icon: Cameroon’s Manu Dibango ‘goes home’”africanews.https://www.africanews.com/2020/03/24/celebrating-a-global-music-icon-cameroon-s-manu-dibango-goes-home/
- “Manu Dibango, Soulful Ambassador of African Music, Dies at 86″The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/arts/music/manu-dibango-dead-coronavirus.html
- “The lion of Cameroon – Cameroon’s Manu Dibango: Scams and unreleased work surface”the Africa reporthttps://www.theafricareport.com/56055/cameroons-manu-dibango-scams-and-unreleased-work-surface/
- “Goodwill Ambassadors – Manu Dibango (1933-2020)”UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizationhttp://www.unesco.org/new/en/goodwill-ambassadors/former-goodwill-a
Director Statement
On arrive à poil , on repart à poil, entre les deux c’est bien de s’amuser un peu… ” Manu Dibango”
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