Rêves de poussière
2006 film by Laurent Salgues
Rêves de poussière (English: Dreams of Dust or Buried Dreams) is a 2006 film by director Laurent Salgues.
Plot
Rêves de poussière tells of Mocktar Dicko, a Nigerien peasant, who goes to look for work in a gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso. He hopes to forget the past in this prison, where the bars are made of dust and wind.
Production
The film was the first full-length feature by Salges.
The project quickly secured Avance sur Recettes and GAN Foundation funding, and gained further French and European funding since the director had obtained Burkina Faso citizenship through marriage.
The film was a France-Canada co-production between Athénaïse – Sophie Salbot and ACPAV – Marc Daigle.
The associate producer was Sékou Traoré of the Burkina Faso company Sahelis Productions.
Reception
A reviewer says the "opening shot reminds you of a choreographed musical—only there is no music, only silence and the sounds of workers’ tools".
Another critic says "Cinematographed by Crystel Fournier, images are hauntingly dreamlike. Wind-swept dust is a recurrent motif".
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