{"id":24,"date":"2010-01-18T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:37:01","slug":"august-2009-wrestling-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/august-2009-wrestling-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"August, 2009 Wrestling Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Combining sporting prowess and fabulous music, the promising "Wrestling Ground" (L'APPEL DES ARENES) dramatically demonstrates the cultural importance of wrestling in Senegal. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WRESTLING GROUND<\/strong> 2006, Senegal, 105 min., 35MM
\nDirected by Cheikh Ndiaye<\/strong> SEE TRAILER!<\/a>
\nThursday, Sept 3, 7pm, General Admission $5.00
\n210 West 87th Street, Chicago, IL 60620<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Combining sporting prowess and fabulous music, the promising “Wrestling Ground”<\/strong> (L’APPEL DES ARENES) dramatically demonstrates the cultural importance of wrestling in Senegal.
\nThe atmosphere is highly charged from the get-go as 19-year-old Nalla (Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye) is chased by several muggers in the daylit streets of his well-to-do Dakar suburb. Wrestling champ Andre (Moustapha Gueye), fixing his truck near the crime scene, intervenes in the melee and intimidates the thieves into returning Nalla’s property.<\/p>\n

While driving Nalla to town, Andre explains the importance of wrestling and encourages the youth to join his group. The sport quickly becomes a vocation for Nalla, much to the consternation of his mother, a domineering and sophisticated upper-class woman who disdains violence in all its forms.
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The film’s second half is both enchanting and edifying with its representations and explanations of the importance of spirituality, music and tradition in Senegalese wrestling.<\/p>\n

Russell Edwards<\/strong>, VARIETY<\/p><\/blockquote>\n