French Institute season to celebrate the work of Raoul Peck. To accompany the release of Oscar nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, the French Institute in Edinburgh is screening six of director Raoul Peck’s previous films throughout April and May.
The season entitled Raoul Peck, Chronicles of an Exile explores Peck’s trajectory from Haiti, where he was borned, to the newly formed Democratic Republic of the Congo and on to France.
Peck’s filmography is tainted by the memory of the painful exile from Haiti, fleeing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961 (The Man On The Shore), only to arrive in the newly independent Congo which would see its Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba assassinated in the months following Peck’s move (Lumumba and Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet). From New-York (Haitian Corner) to Kinshasa (Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet), Peck portrays the immigrants and the misplaced. His...
The season entitled Raoul Peck, Chronicles of an Exile explores Peck’s trajectory from Haiti, where he was borned, to the newly formed Democratic Republic of the Congo and on to France.
Peck’s filmography is tainted by the memory of the painful exile from Haiti, fleeing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961 (The Man On The Shore), only to arrive in the newly independent Congo which would see its Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba assassinated in the months following Peck’s move (Lumumba and Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet). From New-York (Haitian Corner) to Kinshasa (Lumumba, The Death Of A Prophet), Peck portrays the immigrants and the misplaced. His...
- 4/4/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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