Meurtre à Pacot
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Alex Descas, Albert Moleon, Ayo
Meurtre à Pacot | Murder in Pacot by Raoul Peck
FRA/HTI/NOR 2014, Panorama
© Raoul Peck
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Ayo
Meurtre à Pacot | Murder in Pacot by Raoul Peck
FRA/HTI/NOR 2014, Panorama
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Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010. Streets, houses and bridges have collapsed and men in white protective gear are retrieving thousands of dead bodies. A middle-class couple’s large home in Port-au-Prince has also been badly damaged. A building authority orders the owners to renovate immediately otherwise their house will be pulled down. To raise the money needed for this, the couple moves into the former servants’ quarters and rents out the only habitable room in the house to the head of an international aid organisation named Alex. But the young man is not alone. He is accompanied by a 17-year-old Haitian woman named Andrémise, who wants to change her name to Jennifer in the hope that this will help her to meet foreigners. Andrémise’s provocative and positive approach to life and love soon throws the cat among the pigeons. After his documentary Fatal Assistance Raoul Peck now takes a look at the effect of the earthquake on the country’s middle-class. Inspired by Pasolini’s classic 1968 work Teorema, Peck’s film is an intense and intimate drama about social contrasts that also poses fundamental questions about responsibility and justice in the face of catastrophe.
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Wieland Speck, Raoul Peck
The section head and the director in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Meurtre à Pacot · Panorama · Feb 10, 2015
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Alex Descas, Lovely Kermonde Fifi, Raoul Peck, Ayo
The director and his actors at the Photo Call.
Meurtre à Pacot · Panorama · Feb 10, 2015
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Ayo
Meurtre à Pacot · Panorama · Feb 10, 2015
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Lovely Kermonde Fifi (Actress), Alex Descas (Actor), Raoul Peck (Director, Screenwriter), Ayo (Actress)
Meurtre à Pacot | Murder in Pacot
Panorama · Press Conference · Feb 10, 2015
Meurtre à Pacot | Murder in Pacot
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