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The Heart of Madame Sabali
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Wikipedia article
'The Heart of Madame Sabali' is a 2015 tragicomic feature film by Canadian director Ryan McKenna.T'cha Dunlevy, [https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/movies/ryan-mckenna-finds-heart-and-humour-in-le-coeur-de-madame-sabali "Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali"]. 'Montreal Gazette', December 3, 2015. It stars Marie Brassard, Amadou & Mariam, Youssef Camara and Paul Ahmarani.
The film won the Focus Grand Prize for Canadian/Qubec Film at the 2015 Festival de nouveau Cinma.
Plot
Jeannette (Brassard) is a white Qubcois 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.
Response
The film won the Grand Prix Focus at the 2015 Festival du nouveau cinma, and Brassard received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015.
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