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The 2016 New York African Film Festival Presents: Too Black to be French?
Maysles Cinema
New York, NY
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The 2016 New York African Film Festival Presents: Too Black to be French?
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In 2010, offended by the racist comments against black people held by Jean Paul Guerlain on the France 2 TV news, Isabelle Boni-Claverie organized several demonstrations on the Champs Élysées, negotiated with the power players, and obtained a series of measures to promote diversity. However, this incident, which she documents in the film, left her with a bad taste. How is it that in todays France, this is still happening? In response to this question, using a first-person approach, the filmmaker leads an investigation. She invokes the model story of her grandparents, an interracial couple of the 1930s. Reflecting on her upper middle-class childhood, she probes the relationship between class and race. Not without humor, in the manner of: You know you are black when, she asks would-be interlocutors to testify before the camera about the exasperations that they experience. Both personal and collective, the film does not hesitate to call existing policies and beliefs into question.

Q&A with director Isabelle Boni-Claverie to follow the screening as well as a light reception.

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Maysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States
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Owner: Maysles Cinema
On BPT Since: Oct 23, 2009
 
Maysles Cinema
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