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Critic Goldberg may have a point. Africa Addio is a lengthy rape scene in which the predators are the continent's white and black citizens and the victim is Africa itself. Film Makers Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi (Mondo Cane) have assembled a grand guignol of atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi...
...break with tradition? Instead of the routine inspirational, let's have a showing of Mondo Cane...
Malamondo pretends to investigate contemporary youth in Europe, following the guidelines laid down by such through-the-keyhole documentaries as Mondo Cane and Women of the World...
...These dancers don't cultivate violence," the narrator leers. In Sweden, Mala-mondo attends an interracial wedding to spew racist innuendoes about "the appeal of the African lover," then jobs off to visit a Scandinavian miss who clearly wants photographers at hand while she contemplates suicide...
...Ferrari snarled down the straightaway past the finish line, coasted through a slowdown lap, and eased into the pits. What's this? wondered Driver John Surtees when mechanics swarmed round, hugging, kissing, pounding him on the back. Then they began chanting "Campione del mondo! Campione del mondo!" and Surtees finally got the message. "Oh," he said...