A warm response to Timbuktu, with an appreciation score of 86.32 per cent, the second highest score of the season after It Happened One Night. Some comments:
- “Superb. An excellent choice: films like this that reveal other cultures with such sensitivity are the strengths of CFS.”
- “Just what the Film Soc should be showing. Good, important, beautiful and shocking.”
- “Certainly one of the best of the season. V. filmic. Visual delight.
- “Very brave to make this film, and we are lucky to see it. I doubt any main cinema would dare show it.”
- “Excellent, if hard to comprehend the world view.”
- “Beautiful and very effective for restrained use of violence.”
- “Such a sad subject but beautifully told.”
- “Beautifully filmed but very distressing. Loved the ‘football game’ and the witch lady.”
- “Excellent except ending rather unclear.”
- “Let down by the unclear ending.”
- “Subtitles often too rapid and poorly displayed.”