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Meurtre à Pacot (Murder in Pacot)
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Dir. Raoul Peck | 2014, 130min, Haiti
With Alex Descas, Thibault Vinçon, Lovely Kermonde
When their Port-au-Prince villa is severely damaged in the devastating 2010 earthquake, a wealthy couple must renovate the house immediately or have it demolished. In order to bear the costs, the couple moves into the former servants’ shed and rents out the only remaining habitable floor to an employee of a French aid organisation. But the young man is accompanied by Andrémise, a 17-year-old Haitian who wants to change her name to Jennifer to more easily befriend foreigners.
In this follow-up to his 2013 documentary Assistance Mortelle, Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) returns to the earthquake in Haiti, this time through a feature film lens. Inspired by Pasolini’s 1968 classic Teorema, about the disintegration of relationships within a family after a guest’s arrival, Peck presents an intense and intimate drama about social contradictions, asking fundamental questions about responsibility and justice in the face of disaster.
Director, screenwriter, and producer Joël Karekezi joins producer Rhian Vialva in a conversation about The Mercy of the Jungle.
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