Directing
Léandre-Alain Baker
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Directing
Credits
4 titles
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Back home one evening, Nathalie finds a man in her bathtub, a stranger who claims to be a pygmy. He is there, alone, and just wants to talk... Gradually Nathalie forgets her fear, seduced by the strange and lyrical vocabulary of this intruder, this deceptively naive poet. Despite the arrival of her companion, Nathalie begins to dream of a trip to distant shores
A Pygmy in the Bathtub
1993
NRRamata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
Ramata
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Warassa
2025
Behind the camera
Back home one evening, Nathalie finds a man in her bathtub, a stranger who claims to be a pygmy. He is there, alone, and just wants to talk... Gradually Nathalie forgets her fear, seduced by the strange and lyrical vocabulary of this intruder, this deceptively naive poet. Despite the arrival of her companion, Nathalie begins to dream of a trip to distant shores
A Pygmy in the Bathtub
1993
Back home one evening, Nathalie finds a man in her bathtub, a stranger who claims to be a pygmy. He is there, alone, and just wants to talk... Gradually Nathalie forgets her fear, seduced by the strange and lyrical vocabulary of this intruder, this deceptively naive poet. Despite the arrival of her companion, Nathalie begins to dream of a trip to distant shores
A Pygmy in the Bathtub
1993
NRRamata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
Ramata
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Warassa
2025
