Philippe Mory
2021
Le silence de la forêt
Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek Ba Kobhio
Ériq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)
The Forest
On n'enterre pas le dimanche
Michel Drach
Christina Bendz, Philippe Mory
The hero is a black man from Martinique who feels nostalgic for his island and is on his own in France. He falls in love with an au pair girl but has a love affair with a married woman, Mrs Courtalès. He kills the husband in self-defense. But eight months later, he is arrested by the Police. Philippe's fate depends on a child's birth. It will not be what he's expecting.
One Does Not Bury Sunday
Les tam tams se sont tus
Philippe Mory
Philippe Mory, Amélie Joktane
Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle. They form a relationship but are discovered and Abraham flees to the city.
The Tam Tams Are Silent
La rue des bouches peintes
Robert Vernay
Paul Bernard, Françoise Christophe
An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...
La rue des bouches peintes
