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XALA Movie Review

The Curse Impotence Senegal's Ousmane Sembène is one of the world's great cinematic satirists, and he's at the height of his powers in this bitter and brilliantly witty tale of a self-satisfied, “Europeanized” black businessman (he washes his Mercedes with Evian) who is suddenly struck down by the dreaded xala curse, which causes those afflic…

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XICA Movie Review

A diamond rush in 18th-century Brazil transformed the country's interior into a place of undreamed-of wealth and excess. The legendary black slave Xica da Silva (Zeze Mota) found a way to use another natural formation to achieve riches; her body became the key to capturing the attention of the mining-town's governor, and her status as the unofficial “Empress of B…

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