The Heart of Madame Sabali

The Heart of Madame Sabali
Film poster
French	Le Cœur de Madame Sabali
Directed by	Ryan McKenna
Written by	Ryan McKenna Becca Blackwood
Produced by	Ménaïc Raoul Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette Becca Blackwood
Starring	Marie Brassard Francis La Haye Youssef Camara
Cinematography	Ian Lagarde
Edited by	Ryan McKenna
Music by	Amadou & Mariam Tyler Fitzmaurice Matthew Otto Andres Vial
Production company	Voyelles Films
Distributed by	K Films Amérique
Release date	October 2, 2015 (2015-10-02) (VIFF)
Running time	79 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The Heart of Madame Sabali (French: Le Cœur de Madame Sabali) is a 2015 tragicomic feature film by Canadian director Ryan McKenna.[1] It stars Marie Brassard, Amadou & Mariam, Youssef Camara and Paul Ahmarani.

The film won the Focus Grand Prize for Canadian/Québec Film at the 2015 Festival de nouveau Cinéma.[2]

Plot

Jeannette (Brassard) is a white Québécois woman with a severe heart condition living in a suburb of Montreal. After undergoing transplant surgery where she receives the heart of a Malian woman named Madame Sabali, she begins to experience flashbacks of her donor's brutal murder. Soon thereafter, Jeannette becomes friends with Madame Sabali's son Chibale (Camara), who believes she is the reincarnation of his mother.[3]

Response

The film won the Grand Prix Focus at the 2015 Festival du nouveau cinéma, and Brassard received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015.

References

1. T'cha Dunlevy, "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2015.
2. "Archives du Festival du nouveau cinéma". Festival du nouveau cinéma (in French). Retrieved 2018-05-18.
3. "Le coeur de madame Sabali". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2018-05-18.

External links

• The Heart of Madame Sabali at IMDb