Eat for This Is My Body **
Michelange Quaye, 2008
Haiti/France
@ Northwest Film Forum

Part Haitian ethnography, part historically symbolic series of set pieces featuring a white French matriarch, her daughter, and a group of Haitian boys. It's profoundly visual: the opening shot is from a helicopter approaching the island over a city, hitting the beach, then neighborhoods, slums, and increasingly scattered huts, and eventually foothills and the barren, stripped mountainsides. Also, there is an amazing food-fight scene featuring a large cake that gets totally demolished; it seems less portentous than most other scenes, but that could be misleading.

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