Min Yé, Dis moi qui tu es, Tell Me Who You Are ( Mali, 2009) dir. Souleymane Cissé
A Westernized filmmaker, Issa, is a polygamist whose third wife Mimi is a doctor and highprofile health minister. Accustomed to a certain degree of empowerment and independence from her husband (deciding to stay in her own house instead of moving into his household), Mimi carries on a nottoosubtle affair with the married Abba, a fishmonger who sends her a telltale case of fish after each encounter as a token of his affection. Confronted by Issa with his suspicions of infidelity after he finds Abba in the courtyard, Mimi decides to file for divorce, a move that soon brings on a new set of complications, as relatives plead for reconciliation to avoid the shame, Issas second wife increasingly resents the attention paid to Mimi, and Abbas wife begins to grow suspicious of Mimis role in her husbands life.
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