SUN MAR 31, 2024 7:00 PM SOLEIL Ô $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | ‘Med Hondo: An American Cinematheque Tribute’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: In French with English subtitles. A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and the legacy of colonialism. Laced with deadly irony and righteous anger, SOLEIL Ô follows a starry-eyed immigrant (Robert Liensol) as he leaves West Africa and journeys to Paris in search of a job and cultural enrichment—but soon discovers a hostile society in which his very presence elicits fear and resentment. Drawing on the freewheeling stylistic experimentation of the French New Wave, Hondo deploys a dizzying array of narrative and stylistic techniques—animation, docudrama, dream sequences, musical numbers, folklore, slapstick comedy, agitprop—to create a revolutionary landmark of political cinema and a shattering vision of awakening black consciousness. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: France