Tell Me Who You Are (2009)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Marriage Drama  |   Run Time - 135 min.  |   Countries - France, Mali  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

A polygamous couple discover that jealousy and infidelity cuts deep no matter how many spouses you have in this drama from writer and director Souleymane Cisse. Issa (Assane Kouyate) is an artist from Mali who is married to Mimi (Sokona Gakou), who works with a firm bringing international business into the Third World. Following the local custom, Issa has taken a second wife who is prettier and more youthful than Mimi, but Mimi isn't happy with this arrangement, and she begins dating Abba (Alou Sissoko), a seafood wholesaler who has two wives of his own. Issa begins to suspect that there's someone else in Mimi's life, and while he feels entitled to have as many wives as he pleases, the notion that one of them might be unfaithful to him is more than he can stand. Min Ye . . . (aka Tell Me Who You Are) was an official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

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