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My verdict on #ChevalierMovie. It is a good film to think about Black Europe and the erasure of memory. It is a not a great film about 18th C. France, slavery or the Revolution.
You should see it anyway & tell your students about it. 1/
You should see it anyway & tell your students about it. 1/
Keep in mind first that it is VERY hard for a Black filmmaker to get greenlit for this kind of film from a Hollywood studio like Searchlight. & the last thing I want to do as a white scholar of Black French & Haitian history on film is to torpedo a film by a Black director 2/
AND let's keep in mind that films about history from white directors have errors *all the time*. Yet those directors get greenlit over & over again. A Black director whose film is funded & not seen does not get many second chances.
Let's be real about that. 3/
Let's be real about that. 3/
