{"id":367,"date":"2016-05-30T00:27:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-05-30T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:44:23","slug":"review-the-tree-of-ghibet-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/30\/review-the-tree-of-ghibet-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>The Tree of Ghibet<\/i> (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/g3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/g3-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Tree of Ghibet\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/g3-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/g3.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a> <strong>Directed by Nevina Satta, Amedeo D&#8217;Adamo<\/p>\n<p>Starring Corinne Kameny, Andr\u00e9 Bang, Elisee Kound\u00e9.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A small boy (Kound\u00e9) is left in the city by his aunt to fend for himself and finds himself taken in by a witch and her gang of little thieves. If that sounds fantastical, it belies this hard-hitting drama that owes more to Ken Loach than Eli Roth. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Semi-improvised by the real street-children of Douala in Cameroon for the Traveling Film School charity, this is a stark lesson in the unbearable hardships of life in one of the world&#8217;s poorest nations. The same social realism is what makes the witch Ghibet \u2013 part pimp, part savior to the children \u2013 a witch. <\/p>\n<p>In a nation where abandoning a child for &#8220;demoniacal possession&#8221; is legal, Ghibet&#8217;s visions are no more mysterious than a stick. So it&#8217;s first-time actress Kameny&#8217;s weird, erratic, and pained performance as Ghibet that grounds this rough-hewn film in stinking, despairing reality.<\/p>\n<p>(A version of this film previously appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/screens\/2008-10-24\/693669\/\"target=\"_blank\">www.austinchronicle.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Nevina Satta, Amedeo D&#8217;Adamo Starring Corinne Kameny, Andr\u00e9 Bang, Elisee Kound\u00e9. A small boy (Kound\u00e9) is left in the city by his aunt to fend for himself and finds himself taken in by a witch and her gang of little thieves. If that sounds fantastical, it belies this hard-hitting drama that owes more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/30\/review-the-tree-of-ghibet-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: <i>The Tree of Ghibet<\/i> (2007)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}