Images articulate where words fall short, and Sembène’s work shows how the French occupation scarred the land and transformed the daily structures of Senegalese life, from tiny indignities to sweeping bureaucratic changes no one asked for. An entire culture has been left behind: Ibrahima’s culture. And if the replacement is anything like the middle-class Sembène offers in Mandabi, Senegal’s future does not look bright.

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There’s a good doc somewhere inside The World’s a Little Blurry; it just happens to be surrounded by 60ish minutes of excess. And considering that the arc of this story goes from writing songs in a bedroom to winning more Grammys than one can cradle in their arms in roughly 15 months, you’d think it would be easier to find the thread.

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As far back as 1894, they figured out that cat videos were what the people wanted.