Claudine
To celebrate Black History Month, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be screening 15 iconic Blaxploitation movies. This genre, that hit its peaks in the 70s in the US, in a volatile and dissenting political, economical and social context, broke the color codes. The outdated portraits gallery which reduced Black people to servile objects is being replaced by a new esthetic of identy empowerment. This movie cycle intends to shed light on a rich and heteroclite filmography where various sub-genres intersect (action, martial arts, horror, western, drama) to disrupt the essentialist perception of Afro-American (life) experiences.Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Diahann Carroll, Richard Roundtree, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte are showing, to those willing to see, that Black is beautiful!
A single 36-year-old mother of six falls in love with an earthy garbage man who is just as wary of permanent relationships as she is.
John Berry
John Berry is an American actor and director. He began his career as an actor and assistant to Orson Welles in the theater. He made his film debut as an "observer" on Billy Wilder's film Assurance on Death in 1944. In 1945, he moved behind the camera, shooting Tuesday in November, Cross my heart and From this Day Forward over a period of 18 months. From these first films emerge already the tone of realistic and social chronicle which will dominate all his work. After a musical comedy, an American version of Pépé Le Moko, entitled Casbah in 1948, he directed the following year, Tension, a classic of film noir. Then he offered a very big role, but also his last, to John Garfield in Threats in the Night in 1951. "Listed as black during the McCarthy era, John Berry was expelled from the United States. Before emigrating to France, he made a short film, The Hollywood Ten, which was broadcast clandestinely.
