The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

1999 [WOLOF]

Drama / Family

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 981 981

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Plot summary

A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.

720p.BLU
411.99 MB
1280*690
Wolof 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
12 hr 44 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mariececile_widdershoven 8 / 10

A delightful portrait of the streetlife in Dakar

Being a poor and handicapped girl in a large West-African city guarantees a life full of hardship. But Sili is determined to take her fate into her own hands. She stops begging and starts to sell the newspaper 'le Soleil'. Although healthy boys dominate this business, she is immediately successful.The atmosphere of the movie is slightly naïve; Sili successful stands up to policemen and even frees a woman who was imprisoned innocently. Although a bit fairytale-like, the girl Sili is indeed a worthy tribute to the street children of Dakar.
Reviewed by bobjohnson994 6 / 10

Altruism?

Great movie, hard for me to watch as a pampered American.Sili seems to live the impossible - she makes her money then seems to pass out that money to not only her Grandmother, but everyone nearby. There is no way to tell if these people are family or simply neighbors.I have some health problems. When Sili is knocked over by the boys, and one of her crutches falls in the water, the camera pans to Sili's electric smile. She is smiling at the thought of her friend jumping in the water to get her crutch, not thinking about the evil boys that just tried to harm her.It is a smile that I want to cultivate for myself. The smile was insane in its origin, it came from inside the girl, not from her circumstance. I want to be that kind of insane. I want to smile on my worst days like I don't have a care in the world.
Reviewed by patronus 8 / 10

Inspiring short story of one girl in Senegal

The Sun is a newspaper, and the girl is a crippled girl living on the streets of Senegal in poverty with her blind grandmother. The film is basically a parable of her fortitude and the adversity she faces, with inspiring gestures of solidarity and thought-provoking elements of strife--even her enemies are sympathetic in the sense that they, too, struggle with poverty. This would be a wonderful film to show to children for discussion.
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