The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun + Le Franc: Two Films by Djibril Diop Mambety (Blu-ray)

Djibril Diop Mambety, a towering figure in world cinema, is best known for his two features, Touki Bouki (1973) and Hyenas (1992, re-released in a new restoration by Metrograph Pictures in 2019). Yet these two extraordinary films tell only part of the story of the director's enormous accomplishments in his too-brief life. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) and Le Franc (1994) are...