Oka! Page #3

Synopsis: The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Lavinia Currier
Production: Dada Films
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
Year:
2011
105 min
$10,030
Website
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when I go into the forest.

[speaking in foreign language]

A hundred thousand?

That's outrageous.

Larry...

[speaks in foreign language]

Larry?

[bicycle bell dings]

[Woman speaking

in native language]

Oh, God.

I can't afford this.

Okay.

[mutters]

[chattering]

[Kirikiri speaks in French]

[vehicle door closes]

Ah, there you are.

[clearing throat]

Ah, Monsieur La Mayor.

Your prolonged stay

in America--

it went well?

Not bad.

You must have brought back

some wonderful things.

Well, communication

from the president himself.

To go into the forest now,

one needs laissez-passer.

I've never needed a--

New rules.

Sure, but I--

I mean, I--

[speaking in French]

Mr. Larry, a lot has changed

since you left.

We are in the process

of systematizing our Pygmies.

No more leaf huts

or swinging in trees.

We are a modern country.

Monsieur La Mayor...

Ha!

Not even a tiny

little watch for me?

Kirikiri...

[speaks in French]

[whispering]

[bleating]

[speaking in native language]

[speaking in foreign language]

[laughing]

Larry! Larry!

[Mulala]

Larry!

[native instruments]

[Man singing

in foreign language]

Nice bike, f***-head!

[laughing]

[Man speaking

in foreign language]

[Man continues]

[African]

[chattering]

[chickens clucking]

[Man singing

in foreign language]

[goat bleating]

[Mr. Yi]

We can expand operations

to the Congo,

but this concession

will test our mastery

of the most

forbidding frontier.

The most valuable timber

in Africa

and the hardest to get.

You like a challenge.

Ahh!

Ah, I prefer elephant meat.

Elephant is my favorite.

Please.

Why not?

It was already dead.

[laughing]

[continues]

I wonder why the French

never penetrated your forest.

Maybe because they were afraid

of the darkness.

Not the dragon

that is said to be here?

Who told you

about the Mokiliimbimi?

Our little brothers

of the forest

have a lot of imagination.

But, uh, these machines

you Chinese have--

they're so great,

so powerful.

They go over anything,

right?

Don't they?

Don't they?

[chattering]

[blowing]

Sataka.

Hmm?

[Woman]

[Sataka]

[Kids]

Larry...

[speaking in

native language]

[speaking in

foreign language]

Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

[speaks in French]

Larry.

Larry...

[speaking in French]

[Mr. Yi]

Dollars or Euros?

[Larry]

Oh, um, I only wish

I had one to sell.

I'm all out.

But, uh--

Ah.

[clears throat]

But I'm surprised, uh,

that you have an interest.

I am interested

in everything.

Do you want a grub?

They're good.

No, thank you.

But what I find strange

is our workers

are terrified to go

into the deep forest.

Uh, the Bantu are, uh,

extremely superstitious.

Even the mayor.

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