Eat, for This Is My Body

A slow, hypnotic plunge into poverty and delusion, unsettling and visually trance-like, leaving you adrift in unease rather than story.

Directed by

Michelange Quay

Genres

Drama

Starring

Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val

Overview

Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, identity, class, race

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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