It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité’. Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique.展开
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齐娜·津琴科 Bobbi Jene Smith Tyler Phillips Or Schraiber Omri Drumlevich 穆纳·索阿莱姆 Annie Rigney Isaias Santamaria Lorenzo Jackson Yiannis Logothetis Joaquim de Santana Daniel Staaf Roman Malenda Sam Brock 艾文·考特尼 Hannah Elizabeth Alexander Chair Amar Debra Kay An
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Edwige Fenech Vittorio Caprioli Roberto Cenci Lionel Stander Anna Maria Pescatori Eleonora Morana Giancarlo Badessi Enzo Andronico Nerina Montagnani Giovanna Di Vita Pasquale Fasciano Leonardo D'Allura Lorenzo Piani Luigi Antonio Guerra