Toronto
Eat, for This Is My Body
(Haiti - France)
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With: Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val, Jean-Noel Pierre, children from the Kroma Foundation.
(French dialogue)
Beginning with nearly seven minutes of aerial shots traveling from the shore to a plantation in the country's rugged interior, the narrative framework moves from an elderly, bedridden white matriarch (Catherine Samie), conflicted about her allegiances, to her daughter Madame (arthouse mainstay Sylvie Testud) and a younger woman's cat-and-mouse relationship with a group of feisty native boys. Later, domestic Patrick (Hans Dacosta Saint-Val) mysteriously transforms into an albino (Jean-Noel Pierre). Startling imagery, often captured in long, wordless takes, includes a frenzied religious ceremony; women manning DJ mixing consoles; black bodies in and around a vat of milk; and a single-take food fight. Born in Haiti, debuting helmer Michelange Quay has degrees in film production and anthropology, and a masters in film from NYU. At once deliberately conceived and determinedly symbolic, this handsome production explores what the helmer calls "the generations inside of me."
Camera (color), Thomas Ozoux; editor, Jean-Marie Lengelle; art director, Valerie Massadian. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Visions), Sept. 11, 2007. Original title: Mange, ceci est mon corps. Running time: 105 MIN.
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