Feature film
Pousse-Pousse
Daniel Kamwa · 1975
Synopsis
Pousse-Pousse, so nicknamed because he drives a delivery tricycle, wants to marry Rose, whom he loves. He has to pay the bride price, but the girl's father, Papa Bisséké, intends to draw boundless profit from the custom and raises his demands with each payment. The suitor sinks his savings into it and even goes so far as to resell the deposit he had paid for a motorised tricycle, while Bernadette, Rose's sister, and Hélène, his own, get involved.
Context
The director's first feature, the film runs about a hundred minutes and becomes the first Cameroonian film to exceed twenty thousand admissions. Africultures sees it as a brisk comedy about women's emancipation in Africa. Kamwa produces it himself, edits it with Bernard Lefèvre and Jean-Pierre Guntz, and plays a role in it alongside Marthe Ndone Ewane, who plays Rose, and Édouard Tchaptchet. The film was shown again at Lagunimages in 2007, at Africamania, in Paris, and at the Amiens festival in 2010.
Who it is for
In French, a comedy a little over an hour and a half long. It helps to know that the dowry, paid by the groom to the parents of his betrothed, is its driving force.
Prizes and reception
No prize found. La Revue du cinéma, Écran 76 and Positif reviewed it on its release in France.
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