2001 film by Alain Gomis

Aujourd’hui Béa marie sa fille en banlieue parisienne. Il y a peu, en Guinée Bissau, elle assistait à la cérémonie qui consacre son père décédé en ancêtre. D’une cérémonie à l’autre, entre passé et présent, vie et mort, réalité et fiction, Béa se réconcilie avec son histoire, trouve sa place et connaît un moment de paix.

December 1969, Thelonious Monk in Paris. Before his evening concert, he records a programme for French television. The rushes show a Thelonious Monk who is in the grip of the violent factory of stereotypes from which he tries to escape. The film becomes the crossing of this great artist, who would like to exist only for his music. And the portrait in hollow of a media machine as ridiculous as it is revolting. Here is the machine in action. Deconstructing these rushes as phantasms. To see the factory of caricatures at work. Deaf, smiling, ambiguous, admiring and sickening. To hold the microphone without listening, to marvel without seeing. Trying to overturn the point of view. Here is Thelonious going through the ordeal, at work, as if he had landed on a strange planet, where a portrait is being made that he cannot do anything about. Tired by the years spent undergoing this painful exercise. Fortunately, he plays, and in doing so, he makes more than anything else be said. “It brings tears to my eyes when I see the shit that my father was going through” T.S Monk Jr.

三十多歲的也斯不停轉換工作。日間他任導遊或營地輔導員，晚上則在一所救濟窮人的食堂中當義工。他住在一輛拖車內，過着避世和脫離現實的生活。也斯為人積極，富幽默感但有時又很暴力。他正在尋找某些東西，然而他卻不想與任何事扯上關係。不想再做一個「移民的兒子」，如一般人心目中所認為的是行為暴力或順從地融入社會。 也斯重遇昔日的同學。一直以來他都小心避開不想與他們相見，但要來的總是避不開，終於一次過全部相遇在一起。舊日的記憶：被排擠、渴望獲得賞識、童年時的挫折等數之不盡又不能接受的回憶再次一一湧現。也斯必須堅決地擺脫這些糾纏才能有望向前邁進

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2017 film by Alain Gomis