Faces of Women
Faces of Women ★★ 1985
Two stories about women in contemporary Africa. In the first, an unhappy young woman is married to a very jealous man. When her brother-in-law visits, she decides to give her husband something to worry about. The second story finds a businesswoman running into problems when she tries to open a restaurant—problems that her daughter helps to solve. French and indigenous languages with English subtitles. 103m/C VHS . Eugenie Cisse Roland, Sidiki Bakaba, Albertine N'Guessan; D: Desire Ecare.
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