"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor in Treichville, envious of the bordering quarters of The Plateau (the business and industrial district) and the old African quarter of Adjame. The film traces a week in these immigrants' lives, blurring the line between their characters' routines and their own. Every morning, Tarzan, Eddy Co... (Full plot summary below)
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"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor in Treichville, envious of the bordering quarters of The Plateau (the business and industrial district) and the old African quarter of Adjame. The film traces a week in these immigrants' lives, blurring the line between their characters' routines and their own. Every morning, Tarzan, Eddy Constantine and Edward G. Robinson seek work in Treichville in hopes of getting the 20 francs that a bowl of soup costs them. They perform menial jobs as dockers carrying sacks and handy labor shipping supplies to Europe. At night, they drink away their sorrows in bars while dreaming about their idealized lives as their "movie" alter-egos, alternatively as an FBI Agent, a womanizing bachelor, a successful boxer, and even able to stand up to the white colonialists that seduce away their women. These dream-like sequences are shot in a poetic mode. Each day is introduced by an interstitial voice of god omniscient narration from Jean Rouch, providing a universal thematic distance to the movie's events. The film is book-ended by a narration directed at both Petit Jules and the audience from Edward G. Robinson fondly looking back on his childhood in Niger and concluding that his life is worthy of his dreams.
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| User ReviewFrancisco FLe vrai point de depart de la modernite en France. |
| User ReviewCarolina RUn film etnografico que nos muestra con humor, drama, realismo y de primera fuente, la vida y suenos de dos inmigrantes africanos (no muy distinto a lo viven hoy miles de inmigrantes en el mundo). Jean Rouch es un antropologo y cineasta brillante y muy adelantado a su tiempo. Sus peliculas inician el cine etnografico (denominado de muchas otras formas) y tambien el "cinema verite". |
| User ReviewNicholas HBrilliant film from anthropologist Jean Rouch, with some breathtaking footage. We'll be showing segments of his films at Cut Hands this Friday - for anyone interested. |
| User ReviewMaria Elena DHerzog like psuedo-cinema verite where the staged, improvised, and written freely flow into one another, but with a more Ethographic bent, becasue Ethnography is Rouch's background and main cinematic theme. Interconnecting stories are ocassionally difficult to sort out ocassionally, the voice over narration of the three different characters and te narrator are sporadically inspired but sometimes dull. The shots of beer halls and bars are impressive and the portion of the film that stands out most in my mind. An interesting look at the African coast in the late 50's, that could have used more narrative cohesion between it's real and dramatic events. |
