Isaach De Bankolé

  • Claire Denis – Chocolat AKA Chocolate (1988)

    Claire Denis1981-1990DramaFrance
    Chocolat (1988)
    Chocolat (1988)

    A young French woman returns to the silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family’s houseboy, Protee – a man of great nobility and beauty – and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.Read More »

  • Claire Denis – S’en fout la mort AKA No Fear, No Die (1990)

    Claire Denis1981-1990DramaFrance

    Dah from Benin and Jocelyn from the Caribbean, make money through illegal cockfighting. As Pierre, the owner of the restaurant where the fights take place, pushes them to make the events more violent, the disillusioned Jocelyn begins looking for a way out from the sordid dealings.Read More »

  • Claire Denis – Chocolat (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseClaire DenisDramaFrance

    The international breakthrough of acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis, Chocolat is set in a remote town in Cameroon during the last days of France’s colonies in Africa.

    Claire Denis’s award-winning autobiographical film traces a young white woman’s return to her youth in pre-independence French Cameroon, haunted by strong memories of black African Protee, the family’s “houseboy” and a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty. Chocolat is a stirring & subtle examination of intricate relationships in a racist society and the human damage exacted on both the colonized and colonizer.Read More »

  • Lars von Trier – Manderlay (2005)

    Drama2001-2010DenmarkLars Von Trier

    Summary: “The politics of slavery and the follies of nation-building highlight Danish director Lars von Trier’s thought-provoking follow-up to the director’s 2003 drama Dogville, featuring The Village’s Bryce Dallas Howard in the role originally played by Nicole Kidman, and shot in the same stage-bound style as its predecessor. Shortly after leaving Dogville, Grace (Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) wander into a gated Alabama community still operating under the tenants of slavery. Appalled to stumble across a brutal scene in which a white master is viciously lashing his slave (Isaach de Bankolé), Grace hastily intercedes and pleads with the abusive man to treat his workers with respect and dignity. When merciless matriarchal plantation owner Mam (Lauren Bacall) dies shortly thereafter, the remaining slaves, who have never tasted freedom and only known life under “Mam’s Law,” implore the sympathetic Grace to help ease their turbulent transition toward democratic rule, with disastrous results.” (All Movie Guide)Read More »

  • Claire Denis – White Material (2009)

    2001-2010Claire DenisDramaFrance

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    A textured panorama of modern day Africa’s dynamic and volatile cross-cultural landscape, Claire Denis’s White Material is an abstract and elemental, if oddly sterile rumination on colonial legacy and socioeconomic stagnation. Unfolding in episodic flashbacks as second-generation coffee plantation owner, Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert) scrambles to make her way back home after a forced evacuation of European settlers in light of an escalating civil war, the film structurally interweaves the parallel lives of the Vial family, a band of roving child soldiers scouring the countryside for “white material” trophies from fleeing settlers, and a charismatic military officer turned rebel leader known as the Boxer (Isaach De Bankolé) who has gone into hiding to recover from injuries sustained during a recent skirmish.Read More »

  • Szabolcs Hajdu – Délibáb AKA Mirage (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseHungarySzabolcs HajduWestern

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    Synopsis: “Mirage tells the story of an African football player in a small Hungarian town, who commits a crime and has to flee. He finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to fight for his freedom and ultimately his life.”

    Quote:
    The Hungarian plains might as well be Sergio Leone’s American West in Szabolcs Hajdu’s Mirage, an atmospheric fable whose setting feels like no place, any time. Isaach De Bankolé, as the loner who shows up here for reasons we never learn and contends with a gang of slave-driving farmers, carries a film that is philosophically related to but more satisfying than Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control. The picture should draw well at fests, but is willfully obscure enough that, sans an auteur whose name is known in the States, it may be a hard sell here. – John Defore, VarietyRead More »

  • Jim Jarmusch – The Limits of Control [+Extras] (2009)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaJim JarmuschUSA

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    The Limits of Control is the new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law).
    The film is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and otherwise).
    The location shoot there united the writer/director with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle
    (In the Mood for Love, Paranoid Park).

    Isaach De Bankolé stars in the lead role for Mr.
    Jarmusch; this marks the duos fourth collaboration over nearly two decades, following Night on Earth,
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes.
    The Limits of Control also features several other actors with whom Mr.
    Jarmusch has previously worked, including Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton;
    and actors new to his films, including Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal,
    Paz De La Huerta, Jean-François Stévenin, and Luis Tosar.

    The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankolé),
    a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job,
    yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged.

    His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike,
    takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.
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