Also enjoyable, although in a far lower key, have been small-scale pictures
like "Kini & Adams," by Burkina Faso filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo,
and "Journey to the Beginning of the World," by Manoel de Oliveira,
easily the greatest of all Portuguese directors. Ouedraogo's opus focuses
on two friends who hope their dream of starting a taxi business will lift
them (and Kini's family) out of poverty. Kini gets a managerial job at a
local quarry, though, and corporate ambition starts replacing loyalty in
his heart. That's hardly an original story idea, and the movie has plenty
of other narrative and characterological cliches, as well. But it's nicely
acted, and Ouedraogo has filmed it in his usual unpretentious, vernacular
style.
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