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Watch: Timbuktu 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, proud cattle herder Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima (Toulou Kiki), his daughter Toya (Layla Walet Mohamed), and Issan (Mehdi Ag Mohamed), their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes abruptly..
Plot: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives — which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith — abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.
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	7.1/10 Votes: 17,570
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	92/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 403 Popularity: 9.949 | TMDB

Reviews:

Underlying fable of Jihadi oppression, Director Sissako’s clarion call for freedom can be heard
On April 1, 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and the Al Qaeda linked Ansar Dine, took over Timbuktu in the African country of Mali, and placed it under Sharia law. Director Abderrahmane Sissako was born in his mother’s country of Mauritania, but spent most of his life in Mali, his father’s place of birth. Sissako’s main goal in “Timbuktu,” is to expose both the harsh rule of the Jihadists along with their hypocrisy.

Sissako begins his story with images of Africa animist statutes being machine-gunned (off screen) by the newly minted oppressors of Timbuktu. Sissako’s Jihadists are not simply one-dimensional villains. The leader of the lot, Abdelkrim, hails from Libya and must utilize an interpreter to communicate his harsh vision of Islam. Despite his puritanical orders, Abdelkrim is not averse to talking shop about soccer (which is banned in the city) as well as smoking cigarettes.

Abdelkrim soon realizes that his local conscripts aren’t as enthusiastic about Jihad than he is. He attempts to coach one of his local soldiers to fashion a propaganda message before a video camera but the young man just doesn’t seem to be able to say things like he means it.

While the Jihadists drive around in SUV’s with machine guns slung over their shoulders, the administration of Sharia law proceeds at a snail’s pace. This is probably due to the slow paced nature of life in that part of the world to begin with. I was expecting brutal large scale massacres along the lines of ISIS in Syria or Iraq, but most of the jihadists’ violent actions are selective: a woman receives lashes for singing and a couple is stoned to death for committing adultery.

Sissako doesn’t focus a great deal of time in fleshing out his victims, although a couple of his characters hit the mark: the odd but interesting Haitian female shaman who isn’t afraid to thumb her nose at her oppressors as well as a local Iman who attempts to reason with the jihadists over one of their soldiers taking a young girl as his bride against her wishes.

Sissako’s main character who constitutes the main part of the narrative is Kidane, a local herder who lives out in the countryside with his wife and daughter. As A. O. Scott argues, “He is a symbol of decency and tolerance, of everything the extremists want to destroy, precisely because he is an intriguing, fully rendered individual.” I’m not sure if I agree with Mr. Scott that Kidane is “full rendered,” as Mr. Sissako goes out of his way to emphasize the character’s saintliness a little too often (yes we do come to realize that Kidane’s daughter does mean just about everything to him).

Kidane does have an Achilles heel and Sissako perhaps suggests that Kihane’s thirst for revenge may be endemic in the culture. After a local fisherman kills one of his prize cows, Kihane goes to “talk” to him, carrying a gun (his wife warns him not to carry the gun, but he ignores her). Sure enough, the argument between the two turns into a killing-whether the shot that was fired occurred during the struggle or was intentional-is unclear. Kihane ends up before the Jihadi court but probably would have ended up in the same situation, no matter who was administering justice.

Some critics have suggested that Sissako’s style is akin to Brecht. Certainly a good part of his strategy is to make his audience aware of social injustice and exploitation in a part of the world most westerners are not familiar with. If some of his characters seem a bit sketchy, that’s because Sissako has fashioned more of a fable than docudrama. Under the veneer of Sissako’s tragic landscape, the clarion call for freedom continues to resonate.

“Where’s leniency? Where’s forgiveness, where’s piety, where’s exchange? Where’s God in all this?”
Since hearing about it during Oscar season a few years ago, Timbuktu has been a film I’ve been interested to see,but unable to due to not being able to find a DVD of it. Looking to see what was about to be removed from Netflix UK,I was surprised to find the title! I got set to at last see this Oscar nom title.

The plot:

Entering Timbuktu,a group of ISIS fighters declare that they are taking over the land,and that everyone must follow their version of Sharia law. Driving round the villages,ISIS force the public to follow the Sharia law,from not playing with a football to no one being allowed to be in a room with a person of the other sex. As ISIS start controlling every aspect in the running of the area,local residence begin trying to speak to the fighters contradictions.

View on the film:

Remarkably being the first film shot in Mauritania, (standing in for Timbuktu) co-writer/(with Kessen Tall) director Abderrahmane Sissako & cinematographer Sofian El Fani draws lines in the sand with a remarkable poetic quality,from shimmering wide shots looking across the divide of the town via the river,to haunting shots of ISIS fighters standing on roofs to locate people play music illegally. Carefully using Amin Bouhafa’s gentle score to give an unsettling calm, Sissako superbly follows the daily battle/grind the residences have with long takes which have a documentary grit.

Partly based on the killing of a couple in Aguelhok (northern Mali) by Islamist group Ansar Dine,the screenplay by Sissako and Tall brilliantly examines every area of Timbuktu affected by ISIS’s arrival with multiple threads following individuals allowing for a full picture of the horror to emerge. Following a very important current issue,the writers give the dialogue an excellent balance between an almost documentary feel and a sharp poetic quality unveiled in the residence exposing the stark contradictions of the extremists with voices of anger,and a compassionate plea for freedom.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 1076075
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, War
Director Abderrahmane Sissako
Writer Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
Actors Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Country Mauritania, France, Qatar
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 33 wins & 27 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Plus, Cooke S4 and Fujinon Premier Cabrio Lenses
Laboratory M141 Productions [fr] (digital lab)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP