Youssou N'dour: I Bring What I Love
plays in Celestial Cinema Saturday
Celestial Cinema Program
(2008, 102 mins)
In English, French, Wolof with English subtitles35mm
Hawaii Premiere
Directed By: Chai Vasarhelyi
Executive Producer: Edward Tyler Nahem, Jennifer Millstone, Patrick Morris, Jack Turner, Kathryn Tucker, Miklos C Vasarhelyi
Producer: Chai Vasarhelyi
Editors: Jonathan Oppenheim, Fernando Villena
Cinematographers: Scott Duncan, Nick Doob, Jojo Pennebaker, Hugo Berkeley
Music: Martin Davich, James Newton Howard
Producer: Chai Vasarhelyi
Editors: Jonathan Oppenheim, Fernando Villena
Cinematographers: Scott Duncan, Nick Doob, Jojo Pennebaker, Hugo Berkeley
Music: Martin Davich, James Newton Howard
This Film Shows as part of the Celestial Cinema Saturday program, screening order for this program is as follows:
8:00pm Paper Heart (preceded by Spleenectomy)
9:30pm Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
11:00pm Lightbulb
The Muddy Waters of African Islam breaks the barriers between Western mind and the ecstasy of Sufism. That's one way to say it. Perhaps more accurate: Youssou N'dour is a Senegalese griot, a singer-poet whose grandmother performed for kings, whose mother rebelled by marrying outside the griot caste, and who always has adhered to his grandmother's tradition. Fortunately for him, the world was ready to listen, aided by such Western mediaries such as Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and Bono.
This film, soaked in ecstatic music, takes us into the personal history and soul of Grammy-winning Youssou N'dour, the highest selling African musician of all time. We witness the drama and he prepares to release his album Egypt, which presents a tolerant face for Islam. He delays the release due to 9-11. But when the album does appear, it is his fellow Senegales who revile him as a blasphemer. This doc chronicles the way he stands up to rejection and wins over audiences at home and internationally.
I speak for my ancestors, he says. Even talking to God can be done through music. The film presents beautiful and penetrating images of Islam in Africa. In time we get to meet N'dour's grandmother, Marie Sene Mawo (1910-2006) when he performs at Carnegie Hall. We see her washing her feet in a backstage sink.
Popular in festivals all over the world, this film has won awards in the Bahamas, Sao Paulo, Toronto, and a special jury prize at the Middle East IFF.
8:00pm Paper Heart (preceded by Spleenectomy)
9:30pm Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
11:00pm Lightbulb
The Muddy Waters of African Islam breaks the barriers between Western mind and the ecstasy of Sufism. That's one way to say it. Perhaps more accurate: Youssou N'dour is a Senegalese griot, a singer-poet whose grandmother performed for kings, whose mother rebelled by marrying outside the griot caste, and who always has adhered to his grandmother's tradition. Fortunately for him, the world was ready to listen, aided by such Western mediaries such as Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and Bono.
This film, soaked in ecstatic music, takes us into the personal history and soul of Grammy-winning Youssou N'dour, the highest selling African musician of all time. We witness the drama and he prepares to release his album Egypt, which presents a tolerant face for Islam. He delays the release due to 9-11. But when the album does appear, it is his fellow Senegales who revile him as a blasphemer. This doc chronicles the way he stands up to rejection and wins over audiences at home and internationally.
I speak for my ancestors, he says. Even talking to God can be done through music. The film presents beautiful and penetrating images of Islam in Africa. In time we get to meet N'dour's grandmother, Marie Sene Mawo (1910-2006) when he performs at Carnegie Hall. We see her washing her feet in a backstage sink.
Popular in festivals all over the world, this film has won awards in the Bahamas, Sao Paulo, Toronto, and a special jury prize at the Middle East IFF.
www.ibringwhatilove.com
Rated PG.
This film is included on the Celestial Cinema Saturday ticket
Rated PG.
This film is included on the Celestial Cinema Saturday ticket
Screening Schedule
Sat, Jun 20th
Celestial Cinema- Wailea
Celestial Cinema- Wailea
$20.00
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