The Woman with the Knife (Original title: La femme au couteau) is a 1969 Ivorian French-language drama / thriller film directed by Timité Bassori.

[2] The film is about a young intellectual from the Côte d’Ivoire who returns home to Abidjan.

He strives to reconcile European and African schools of thought, as well as conflicts between modernity and tradition, when he begins seeing strange visions of a woman with a knife.

[4] According to Françoise Pfaff, writing in Twenty-Five Black African Filmmakers, “La Femme au Couteau stands unquestionably as Timité Bassori’s most accomplished work.

According to Bassori, the film is ‘a personal experience and the result of multifarious observations of life.