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The Silent Monologue

Essential Documentaries • 45m

Directed by Khady Sylla | 45 mins | 2008
Khady Sylla’s docudrama inquiry into the lives—inner and exterior—of Dakar’s female domestics, which employs scenes of improvised street theater, direct-address freestyle screeds, candid interviews, and inner monologue musings with the end of allowing its subjects, of whom quiet subservience is expected in their professional lives, to be seen and heard.

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