Familiar PisRynce’s involvement in the transatlantic trade trade between the most important in Europe. After Britain, France has Second largest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people CAST At least 4,220 documented Trade Trade in France. Although people’s life stories are almost completely none of the French collective imagination.
Grown in France, only the images of this crime against the people I see on the screen are in no-made films. I know this from the 1970s TV series of roots and from Steven Spielberg’s moursad. Today in France, Hollywood films like 12 years a slave or Django is not attracted It is still references when it comes to illustration of horrors experienced by enslaved people.
Despite the efforts of French film makers with personal history of being tired of slavery – such as Guadeloupean Christian Lara (Live free or die, 1980, bitter sugar, 1998) or Martinican guy deslauriers (Mid,, 2000) – Slavery as a French thenomenon that remains almost invisible on our screens. Paradoxically, the first main and commercial successful film set in the context of French Caribbean Enclass (meters2011) A comedy that fails to participate in the structural nature of bullying it describes.
So finally I found a story on the big screen about French slavery victims, placed in French colonies, the effect of healing. Film-maker Simon Moaïrouu told me when I he was interviewed Last year about No chains with no masters: “As a young Sintilea, I always struck the loss of this topic – slavery, coffee – In French cinema. “
For the first time in French film, the story of the victims of slavery in the 18th century – on Isle De France (Now Mauritius) at Indian Ocean, then there is a possession of the French crown – told. Beyond the polished aesthetic, which describes the black bodies in an unusual distant manner, the director’s decision to focus on coffee – The escape of the enslaved people from being possession of oppressors – the inclusion of African languages such as Woof and increasing a spiritual dimension provided to this film.
This year, a biopic last dedicated to a significant number, one must be a source of French national pride. With fanonGuadeloupean film-maker Jean-Claude Barny (director of Tropical BittersA pioneering 2007 TV ministry about martinique slavery) brings his signature cinematic talent to the extraordinary story of Frantr Fanon.
Fonon, a psychiatrist born in Martinican, writing about psychological effects of colonialism – came from his experience as a caregiver in Algeria – but he also walked.
He joined the Algerian revolution against France and became a spokesman for the Fln (National Liberation Front). Fanon died in 1961, one year before the liberty of Algeria in 1962 – but only in two books, he was able to encourage liberty and anti-colonial movements around the world. And yet, in France, not a school brought his name. In 2019, the town of Bordeaux town – a city that drives the heritage of bondage, colonization and exploitation of the Martinique in a fonon scandal, but the mayor, a former Prime Minister, The initiative was knocked down.
Barny’s moving On The Fanon began to arrive at Algeria, and followed the painful journey to a psychiatrist, body and soul, in a country fighting himself from the colonial rule. The film creates a powerful resonans between two territories – Fonon’s Martinique native, which is formed by slavery, and Algeria, in Brutal invaded and restricted in French troops in 1830.
Despite anti-black, Fanon gets notes on his mission, documenting with a colonial situation accuracy to provide his strongest task: The soiled of the ground. The film does not contain the precious contributions to the Fanon’s wife, Josie FanonAs early arousing of the revolution was obtained. It devastates us to the severity and suffering of bullying – palpable and often. The daily reality of fatal, unconscious resistance is set to wicked violence. However, as Fanon’s words – chased in the film’s own structure – Remind us: “The colonized is dominated but not inhabited.”
The effects of bondage and colonial are still visible to former colonies currently full of French departments and suffer from the same dependent departure. In Guadeloupe, Reasonably unemployed leaves a lot of young people in the state of despair and disturbance.
Nelson FoixA guadeloupean film-producer, dedicated to his new film Zion To the youth of the island, drawn to the hand in a place where opportunities are lacking. To a Gambok shot shot of Creole and backed by a perfect local production – including the producer of Paris Lascary raceThat’s from Guadeloupean Heritage – Foix is painted a tight photo on an island still earned in a dynamic colonial dynamic.
Under the Gange of a Gangster story – with guns and high-speed chasse – Zion puts high cost of living, water shortages, social revenues and the moved by the state poisoning to land with A toxic pesticide called chlordecone, used by banana plantations. All of this is imposed on a mysticism mixing Catholicism and ancestral beliefs, resulting in a shocking cinematic experience.
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This is a relief that ultimately see new films described Tanya Through a different lens, although I cannot help but lend their disgrace to the most reflective showcase events – like Cannes. These films are still pushed to margins in a public space that is clearly unprepared to create a place for excessive accounts.
However, despite a limited teatrical release – and suggestions of a “boikott“By some theaters – the odd fanon enjoys public success deserves.
Like Mtoaïrou, he dropped two white film stars – Camille Cotin (known at the International TV Hitel, even supporting roles, even supporting the roles, even supporting the roles of cinematic, as the film-creator, allowed to Social media is the film in Find its audience.
After Breaking records in Box-Office In the French antilles before releasing Mainland France, Zion emerges as the The hit hit the year. For once, the French Caribbean islands showed no usual emphasis on the full scene of the postcard.
While colonial history remains a blind spot for French cinema, listeners are more than willing to deal with this – and there is no lack of talent to make it happen.
