Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4162 in VHS
• Released on: 1999-11-16
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Yaaba, yaabetcha!
Yaaba is probably the best film ever made by an African director. It's one of those rare films that's a great audience film as well as a great work of art. Yaaba is a beautifully told story about the friendship between a boy and girl and an elderly outcast they befriend (the word "Yaaba" means "granny"). It's never cloying or sentimental and there is plenty of wry humor throughout.

First-time director Idrissa Ouedraogo's step never falters - every scene is beautifully crafted. His graceful, effortless style achieves a quiet, poetic quality that is very satisfying. I can't recommend Yaaba too highly!

has stayed with me
I saw this film in a theatre when it first came out, I'd say about 18 years ago, although I could be wrong. It was a long time ago. I haven't seen it playing anywhere since. Once I went to the Donnell library,in NYC and watched it. I have never seen it in a video store. In all these years and hundreds of movies later, this one stands out as one of the best. It has stayed with me. I wish it was on DVD, it would make a good gift.

A Celluloid Epiphany
This film is so delicately forceful that you don't feel the impact of it until the final frame. It is a film that draws you in with it's beauty, then the richness of the carachters,then sound, until you have named them your ancestors and imposed value on their existence. This happens in the first twenty minutes and like a dream of a movie that it is, you let yourself become transported. And then the final moment when the film literally wakes you up by enlightment. I wish I had made this film but then I would not have been able to experience it in this way.