Every day until March 31, 2024 I will be watching and reviewing a movie that is 90 minutes or less.
Title: Moi un Noir
Release Date: March 12, 1959
Director: Jean Rouch
Production Company: Les Films de la Pléiade
Summary/Review:
Rating: ***1/2
This film documents a week in the life of immigrants from Niger who have come to Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire to find work. The premise of the film is that documentarian Jean Rouch has collaborated with several young men to make the movie of their life. Rouch filmed extensive footage of their daily lives and then edited it together with the subjects of the film narrating their story and dialogue later in a studio. The blurred line between documentary and non-professional actors improvising a story out of their real-life experiences puts this film in the category of docufiction alongside Man of Aran, Las Hurdes, The Exiles and On the Bowery. The film does a great job of capturing the everyday drudgery of these young men’s lives as well as their dreams of success as a boxer or a movie star as well as depicting that the behaviors of young men having fun transcend time and culture.
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