Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet

Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet
Directed byJean Rouch
Damouré Zika
Lam Ibrahim Dia
Written byJean Rouch
StarringDamouré Zika
Lam Ibrahim Dia
Tallou Mouzourane
CinematographyJean Rouch
Edited byChristine Lefort
Production
companies
Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines
Les Films de l'Homme
Distributed byÉtoile Distribution
Release date
  • 19 January 1977 (1977-01-19)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryNiger
LanguagesFrench
Fula
Hausa

Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet (French pronunciation: [kokoʁiko məsjø pulɛ]; "Cock-a-doodle-do! Mister Chicken") is a 1977 Franco-Nigerien road movie by "Dalarou", a pseudonym for Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia and Jean Rouch.[1][2][3][4]

Production

Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet was filmed in and around Niamey, Niger on 16 mm film in 1974. Much of the film was improvised.[5] Damouré Zika used the money he made from Petit à petit (1970) to buy the Citroën 2CV featured in the film.[6]

Synopsis

Lam, owner of a home-built Citroën 2CV named “Patience”, and his apprentice Tallou, drive into the countryside to buy chickens to sell in Niamey. Damouré, an opportunist, joins them on this one-day trip. They encounter adversity, a "demon", and are forced to make multiple crossings of the Niger River.[7]

Reception

Rembert Hüser wrote that in Cocorico! Monsieur Poulet "the technology fetish of Western society gets thoroughly dismantled."[8]

References

  1. ^ "COCORICO MONSIEUR POULET - Festival de Cannes".
  2. ^ Stoller, Paul (June 15, 1992). The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226775463 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Brink, Joram Ten (November 24, 2007). Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch. Wallflower Press. ISBN 9781905674473 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Au Niger, sur les traces de Jean Rouch – Jeune Afrique". September 12, 2016.
  5. ^ Mouellic, Gilles (April 15, 2014). Improvising cinema. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789048518425 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Henley, Paul (November 24, 2009). The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226327143 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Cocorico ! Monsieur Poulet". Le Monde diplomatique. April 1, 2007.
  8. ^ Prager, Brad (May 21, 2012). A Companion to Werner Herzog. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781405194402 – via Google Books.
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