Mambar Pierrette

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Mambar Pierrette

Released Jan 26, 2024

1h 33m

Drama

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The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighborhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer, Pierrette becomes the confidant of her customers, of a generation. But when the rain starts pouring down and threaten to flood her workshop -- one of several successive misfortunes -- Pierrette will have to stay afloat.

Phil Hoad

Guardian

Mbakam’s feminist parable has a winning integrity and grace.

Rated: 4/5

May 6, 2024

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

Mbakam hits a remarkable balance. The sociopolitical truths that make up Pierrette’s losing streak are evident, without the miserable patronizing so common in films about struggle in Africa.

Jan 25, 2024

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

What makes all of this work is that it’s not a work of patronizing miserablism, despite the many travails that make up Pierrette’s life both before and during the film’s time frame.

Apr 3, 2025

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

Like her documentaries, Mambar Pierrette is not just a character portrait but a look at how colonialism continues to affect the lives of everyone in the country in ways big and small.

Oct 5, 2024

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Edward Frumkin

The Film Stage

Mbakam’s minimalist aesthetics demolish the binary between nonfiction and fiction to reflect Pierrette’s flawed, humane intentions across the nurturers from many settings.

Rated: A-

Apr 5, 2024

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Shar Tan

In Review Online

The drudgery of financial precarity exists alongside moments of joy, which prevents Mbakam’s film from being overly gratuitous in depicting the continual cruelty that Mambar is dealt.

Jan 24, 2024

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Munkhchimeg T

Remarkable movie. Her character is the best human ever. So humble and kind.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/14/24

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Bahad j

I am very happy that the movie shows us the steps and choices that are necessary in the life of a great person. I like the movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/14/24

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Audience Member

One of the greatest films that M’Bakam made

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/13/24

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Sandy L

Absolutely loved this movie. Saw it on Amazon a few days ago having not heard much about it and over this easter weekend have watched it twice more. It's effing funny, its tense, its romantic but mostly its just got great performances. Would never have thought to put these set of actors together but the result is much greater than the sum of its parts. Def check it out.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/24

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Simon H

Seen this movie 4 times and it feels stronger with every view. Think it's the slow slow burn of the love affair that makes it all work.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/24

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The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighborhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer, Pierrette becomes the confidant of her customers, of a generation. But when the rain starts pouring down and threaten to flood her workshop -- one of several successive misfortunes -- Pierrette will have to stay afloat.

Director: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
Producer: Geoffroy Cernaix
Screenwriter: Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
Distributor: Icarus Films
Production Co: RTBF, Tândor Films, Tândor Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 26, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 26, 2024
Runtime: 1h 33m

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