Mandabi (Criterion Collection)

With the unexpected windfall of a 25,000-franc money order from his nephew in Paris, a middle-aged Senegalese (Makhouredia Gueye) thought it was going to be a good day. However, between the bureaucracy and corruption he encounters trying to cash the instrument, the parade of relatives and grifters now knocking, and creditors turned ugly, it would prove something else entirely, in Ousmane Sembène’s seriocomic tale; Ynousse N'Diaye co-stars. 91 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Wolof and French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; bonus short "Tauw" (1970); featurettes. In Wolof and French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR