Assistant Decorator
La legendaria Billie Holiday, una de las mejores intérpretes de jazz de todos los tiempos, pasó la mayor parte de su carrera siendo adorada por sus fans alrededor del globo. Todo mientras el Departamento Federal de Narcóticos de Estados Unidos la fijó como objetivo mediante una operación encubierta liderada por el Agente Federal Jimmy Fletcher, con quien Billie había tenido un tumultuoso romance.
Sound
The film Soleil Ô, shot over four years with a very low budget, tells the story of a black immigrant who makes his way to Paris in search of “his Gaul ancestors”. This manifesto denounces a new form of slavery: The immigrants desperately seek work, a place to live, but find themselves face to face with indifference, rejection, humiliation…until the final call for uprising. “Soleil Ô” is the title of a West Indian song that tells of the pain of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves.
Electrician
A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.
