Moi, un Noir

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Moi, un Noir

1958

1h 10m

Drama

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Eddie and Edward journey to the capital of the Ivory Coast and struggle with a new way of life as their new modern lifestyle clashes with their traditional ways of life.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

With this innovative working method, Rouch raises a question implicit in all nonfiction filmmaking: Who’s the genuine auteur, the director or the subjects? And yet the results don’t feel at all cerebral.

Sep 13, 2022

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

These nonactors, playing versions of themselves, perform and discuss their own stories in voice-over. Tellingly, they draw crucial aspects of their self-image not from African culture but from American and French media.

Apr 14, 2020

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Jean-Luc Godard

Arts (France)

Moi, un Noir is, in effect, both the most daring of films and the humblest.

Sep 2, 2021

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Nathanael Hood

The Young Folks

...a stunning portrait not just of disaffected youth, but of a country struggling to define and improve itself in the shadow of Western imperialism.

Rated: 10/10

Jan 31, 2019

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Herzog 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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Un 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".

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

Brilliant 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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

Le vrai point de depart de la modernite en France.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Eddie and Edward journey to the capital of the Ivory Coast and struggle with a new way of life as their new modern lifestyle clashes with their traditional ways of life.

Director: Jean Rouch
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Screenwriter: Jean Rouch
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 16, 2017
Runtime: 1h 10m

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