Author: Vf DVD

Format: Color

Release Date: 01-04-2003

Details: Amazon.ca A true cantor of independent Quebec cinema, Robert Morin has finally benefited from a budget worthy of the name for his production of the punchy title Le Nèg', a human drama of pure fiction that delivers a scathing slap in the face to banal and everyday racism. One night, deep in the Quebec countryside, a negro in plaster is broken, a young black man seriously injured and an old lady, Cédulie, murdered. But the inspectors in charge of the investigation will have a hard time disentangling the versions of the various protagonists: Tâton, Duck, Josée, Samantha and Polo, the deficient son of Cédulie. Built like Akira Kurosawa's classic Rashomon, Le Nèg' pinpoints with acerbic irony the hypocrisy, ordinary racism, selfishness and loneliness that show through in the depositions of the characters. It is through that of Polo, a colorful and poetic allegory accompanied by a song by Fernand Gignac, that the ignoble truth will arise. Thanks to a fluid and rhythmic production, Robert Morin juggles, as usual, with the different levels of reality while forcing the viewer to look straight in the eye at his own cowardice in the face of racism. Playing with an intense dramatic progression, he signs with Le Nèg' a brilliant and salutary film. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 807581502042

EAN: 0807581502042

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood