Le premier acrobate
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.
Assistant Camera
This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.
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A Creole kung-fu film.
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A Creole kung-fu film.
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Shot during the cane workers' strikes in 1975, this first authentically West Indian film bluntly depicts Guadeloupe as it was, thirty years after departmentalization.
Um jovem chega a Paris vindo da Mauritânia, onde espera ter uma vida melhor. Sendo extremamente difícil achar um emprego ou um apartamento, embora seja um homem educado, e ao receber cantadas condescendentes de mulheres, ele logo enfrentará discriminação por todos os lados.
