Last week, we showed you a behind the scenes look at Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus (La Vénus Noire), this week we have a first look at what would have been the common carnival setting.
With Black Venus, Kechiche will once again compete in Venice and the voluminous almost three hour drama will surely met with the same fate: critically applauded, difficult to market in North America. I'm crossing my fingers for a TIFF North American premiere to alter the film's fate.
Working with probably his largest budget to date, Kechiche touches upon the immigrant narrative once again, but inside the context of a biographical, historical approach - Baartman is perhaps this year's most unusual choice for a biopic treatment.
Ask me what my top film of 2008 was. Simple. Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain (see here). Ask me what my number 2 film of the year is. Simple. Steve McQueen's Hunger (see here).
Xmas is sizing up to be a great time for movie-watching with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Waltz with Bashir and Revolutionary Road unwrapping themselves before us for the holiday season weekend, but it’s the extra present in Abdellatif Kechiche’s third film that was just added to the tree that is perhaps the best of gifts for cinephiles.