Daïnah la métisse
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The Films of Pedro Costa
July 17 - 23, 2015
Introduction by Pedro Costa
In Jean Grémillon’s gritty, sinister fairy tale, which Gaumont hacked to nearly half its original length on release, a violent love triangle emerges between three of the marginalized residents of a luxury ocean liner: a magician, a mechanic, and a beautiful, mixed-race young woman.
Introduction by Pedro Costa
The relentlessly daring experimental French filmmaker Jean Grémillon, who made the bulk of his films before and during the Second World War, asked to have his name taken off the released cut of this mesmerizing, deeply unsettling work—his second sound film—after Gaumont hacked it to nearly half its original length. The beautiful Daïnah is a métisse: a mixed-race young woman married to a black magician who lives and works on a luxury ocean liner. One night, she meets a mechanic whose interest in her will lead to tragedy. Daïnah la métisse is a gritty, sinister fairy tale in the strong French fantastique tradition—its unforgettable magic show scene rivals that of George Franju’s Judex—with an attentiveness, characteristic of Grémillon, to the lives of the marginalized and under-noticed. Print courtesy of Institut Français, Paris.
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