16046: (Hermantin) Miami Herald-REEL HAITI (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Posted on Sun, Jun. 29, 2003

REEL HAITI

Here is a selection of Haitian films that serve as an introduction to the
current wave.

Creole and French with English Subtitles

• Barikad (Barricade) -- Directed by Richard Sénécal. A dreamy young man
falls in love with his family's housekeeper, to the consternation of his
parents, who want to keep class lines intact.

• Haitian Corner -- Directed by Raoul Peck. A poet flees Duvalierist Haiti
for New York and meets a former soldier who tortured him back home.

• Pour L'amour de Suzie -- Directed by Raynald Delerme. A player and a
single mother try to forget their past and rebuild their lives together.

French with English Subtitles

• Lumumba -- Directed by Raoul Peck. This film chronicles Patrice Lumumba's
rise to power in the Congo in 1960.

Creole/French

• Kouché pa Bay (Laziness Begets Nothing) -- Directed by Willy Exume. Two
unemployed Haitian immigrants in New York come up with a scheme to pluck
them out their misery: shepherding their own church.

• Cicatrices (Scars) -- Directed by Jean-Gardy Bien-Aimé. A wealthy widow
finds love in a much-younger man, and becomes alienated from her son, who
still treasures his father's memory.

• Shango -- Directed by Moise Kharmeliaud and Wheeler Mackens. When a
reporter's wife is murdered, he sets out to find her killers and unravels a
web of treachery, police and media corruption and narcotics trading.

• Piwouli et le Zenglendo [Piwouli and the Thug] -- Directed by Arnold
Antonin. A bored housewife, trapped in a loveless marriage, becomes enamored
of a thief who robs her at gunpoint.

• Les Gens de Bien (People of Means) -- Directed by Raynald Delerme. A
thinly disguised satire of the last days of the Duvalier dynasty.

• Caroline -- Directed by Louis Barth. A willful country girl schemes to
break free from her tyrannical father to be with her true love.

KATHELINE ST. FORT

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