Mambar Pierrette

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Mambar Pierrette

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

05/06/2024

4/5

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

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

01/25/2024

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.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

04/03/2025

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.

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Alex Heeney

Seventh Row

10/05/2024

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.

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Edward Frumkin

The Film Stage

04/05/2024

A-

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

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Shar Tan

In Review Online

01/24/2024

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.

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Munkhchimeg T

@RT64187897 08/14/2024

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

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Bahad j

@RT27093708 08/14/2024

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.

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Kae T

@RT28472826 08/13/2024

One of the greatest films that M’Bakam made

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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