It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité’.
Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique.《西印度群岛》于1979年法国上映，由梅德·翁多导演，Cyril Aventurin,费尔南·贝尔塞,罗兰·伯汀,Gérard Bloncourt,Toto Bissainthe,菲利普·克利夫诺等主演的一部剧情片！可可影院提供《西印度群岛》免费在线观看，《西印度群岛》完整未删减版在线观看！可可影院所有迅雷下载资源以及在线观看资源由云端程序自动抓取，如果你喜欢《西印度群岛》最新一期，欢迎分《西印度群岛》给你的好友，本片只做交流学习，请勿用于商业利益行为，请支持《西印度群岛》正版影片！请下载观看后24小时内删除，感谢支持！
