Buttered Popcorn by Carson Timar
Nearly every piece of the film truly feels inspired and where sure there is the occasional scene that feels a bit too on the nose, that is far from enough to truly hurt this powerful piece of cinema.
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France, Mauritania · 1973
1h 43m
Director Med Hondo
Starring Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise Mbia, Gabriel Glissant
Genre Drama
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A Black immigrant goes to Paris in search of his ancestors. He and other immigrants desperately seek work and shelter, but are faced with rejection and humiliation, until the call for uprising. The title derives from a West Indian song about the pain of Black people from Benin who were enslaved in the Caribbean.
Buttered Popcorn by Carson Timar
Nearly every piece of the film truly feels inspired and where sure there is the occasional scene that feels a bit too on the nose, that is far from enough to truly hurt this powerful piece of cinema.
Wall Street Journal by David Mermelstein
A combination of pure documentary and improvisation, the film lacks a conventional plot but offers instead many gripping scenes.
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Hondo's passionate, wide-ranging voice-over commentary, addressing the hero in the second person, blends confession and observation, aspiration and despair, societal and personal conflicts.
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