The 1985 film "Out of Africa", based on the novel by Karen Blixen, tells the story of a young Danish aristocrat who goes to Kenya when this country was still a British colony. She gets married but falls in love with another man.
Africa is, for her, a marvellous continent, which she both adores and fears. The natives who live on her farm are intrigued by her cuckoo clock (it looks a bit like the one above). We see this clock several times throughout the film and it takes on symbolic value. I think it's an image of time running out for the period of colonization, but also of the change and progress for which the local people were not perhaps yet ready.
Article by Camille Moins
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