1970 > Mauritania > Directed by Med Hondo
With Robert Liensol, Theo Legitimus, Gabriel Glissand
A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, this film is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and its legacy of colonialism. A starry-eyed immigrant leaves West Africa for Paris in search of a job and cultural enrichment, but soon discovers a hostile society in which his very presence elicits fear and resentment. Drawing on the freewheeling experimentation of the French New Wave, Soleil Ô deploys a dizzying array of narrative and stylistic techniques - animation, docudrama, dream sequences, musical numbers, folklore, slapstick comedy, agitprop - to create a revolutionary landmark of political cinema and a shattering vision of awakening black consciousness. Offered in a new restoration. In French & Arabic. Subtitled. More at www.janusfilms.com/films/1978
1 hr 42 min

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