Sugar Cane Alley

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Alec B @Alec97 02/21/2024 A deeply moving story that treats its characters and their circumstances honestly while never feeling too depressing or sentimental. See more 04/02/2022 A deeply moving story that treats its characters and their circumstances honestly while never feeling too depressing or sentimental. See more 06/02/2021 All ages admitted; LOL & ROFL See more 03/24/2013 Based on a semi-autobiographical novel written by Josef Zobel, this is a wonderful, heart-warming movie set in Martinique in the early thirties. We see the African population working in the cane fields are no longer slaves. But the white masters of a generation ago have now become their bosses, and whilst no longer entitled to beat them are still paying them wages that keep them in poverty in their village 'shacks'. Our young protagonist's Grandmother knows that only a college education in the capital will save her bright boy from a future in the cane fields. That there are so few other period pieces set in the Caribbean of any quality makes this one even more unmissable. See more 03/15/2011 This film really captures the essence of the sugar cane culture in Martinique in the 1930s. See more 12/14/2010 Direct and moving coming-of-age tale in 1930s Martinique, as an intelligent young boy struggles with issues of class and race. See more Read all reviews

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