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It had a good message but it was difficult to watch, to the point where I had to distract myself from what was happening on screen.
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02/03/23
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A descent into the hell of human exploitation.
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02/24/23
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The best true story movie that I've seen. It has so many emotional scene
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02/16/23
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At first I thought that this film was utterly racist. Mind you not racist as in openly saying that black people are inferior, on the contrary it tends to depict every single white character as a lustful, small-minded, violent vulgaroid. No, this film appears racist because it shows the lead character as purely the object of other people's plans and ambition. She seems devoid of any form of will for herself. She is never shown taking the initiative, not even to buy a single hat!
She lets her life turn into a pathetic spectacle be it on stage or in the real life, like in that scene in the London court room where she is paraded in from of yet another audience. All along she is not more active than an old rag carried by the wind. But the film is not racist, it is simply misanthropic, it's not that the director despises the black character particularly, he apparently hates everybody equally.
Yet the character is obviously a rather gifted person full of energy and curiosity. She's objectively admirable even. She can speak at least four languages, she volunteered for a trip that would take her on the far side of the world, she obviously must have had plans, things she wanted to do after her business venture. But no, for some reason, she's deprived of that personality. This form of complete alienation coupled with the utter vulgarity of the rest world makes for a gloomy philosophy barely worth of an adolescent going through a passive agressive teenage crisis. Around her the world is crumbling (the scenes in Paris are shot the very same month as the battle of Waterloo which brought about the collapse of Napoleon's empire), but she and the director are really not interested.
I could see no love in the camera's eye, which is particularly sad considering that the cast in general was excellent. Andre Jacobs in particular is magnificent. To his credit, I have to say that the director is able to make the audience share completely his general hatred for the world around him. After almost three hours of being hammered with soft-core sadistic porn on repeat and seeing close ups of ugly faces and unappealing naked bodies, I too hate the whole of human kind, Afrikaans, French, Hottentot, English, all of that slimy, stinky, sweaty lot! At the end of the film, I felt nauseous even though I couldn't say if the cause was the constantly moving shoulder-held camera or the disgust inspired by Kechiche's cold outlook on life.
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02/10/23
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Un biopic interessant et bien realise qui peche toutefois par sa longueur. Kechiche a visiblement souhaite que le spectateur vive, endure meme, les humiliations subies par la Vénus Hottentote. Mais l'effet voulu finit par s'inverser et l'empathie cede la place au soulagement quand Sarah finit par mourir.... on est presque content nous aussi d'en finir.
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01/26/23
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Venus Noire is not a film you would want to see twice, but I am certain that after watching it just the once it will haunt me for the rest of my life. It is, without question, one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. This is because it depicts, with inescapable clarity, one of the darker, more despicable chapters of European history, the story of Saartje Baartman and the ceaseless, unspeakable suffering which she went through at the hands of this sadistic, cruel and ignorant world. There is no pretense in this film, nor concern for Western sensibilities which would sooner forget that story than remember and admit our collective shame. The actress, Yahima Torres, portrays Saartje and her pain with a remarkable, emotionally-shattering performance that will leave one feeling guilt-ridden and disgusted beyond belief. Her eyes say it all.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/14/23
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