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The Importance of Being Elegant (2004)

ALL 08/14/2004 (fr) Documentary 70 Min
  • Release
    08/14/2004
  • Production
    October Films, Dominant 7
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    The Importance of Being Elegant
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
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Overview

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult. Papa Wemba is a well-known Congolese singer. He is also a big cheese in Le Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et Persons Élégants, which translated into English means a society of people who spend huge amounts of money on designer clothes with the motive of making themselves as conspicuously elegant as possible. The film is a splendid evocation of Papa Wemba's music, but it is also an unusual insight into what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary Europe. The sapeur have borrowed from our own culture, creating something rich and strange and wholly Congolese. Don't miss the scene where they try on fur coats.

  2. Story

  4. George Amponsah

    Producer



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The Importance of Being Elegant (2004) 70 Min

ALL 08/14/2004 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 08/14/2004
  • Production
    October Films, Dominant 7
  • Original title The Importance of Being Elegant
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult. Papa Wemba is a well-known Congolese singer. He is also a big cheese in Le Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et Persons Élégants, which translated into English means a society of people who spend huge amounts of money on designer clothes with the motive of making themselves as conspicuously elegant as possible. The film is a splendid evocation of Papa Wemba's music, but it is also an unusual insight into what it means to be an immigrant in contemporary Europe. The sapeur have borrowed from our own culture, creating something rich and strange and wholly Congolese. Don't miss the scene where they try on fur coats.

  1. Cosima Spender, George Amponsah

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Valerio Bonelli

    Editor

  4. George Amponsah

    Producer



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