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3.4 of 5 from 57 ratings
2h 40min
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- Synopsis:
- Baartman (Yahima Torres) was taken from South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as a freak show. Presented semi-nude, her physique - especially her large buttocks - was the source of much curiosity. But as her'fame' spread, so too did her exploitation...'Black Venus' provides a bleak but barbed exploration of sex, science, race, colonialism and social attitudes.
- Actors:
- Yahima Torres, Andre Jacobs, Olivier Gourmet, Elina Löwensohn, François Marthouret, Michel Gionti, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Jonathan Pienaar, Rémi Martin, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Cyril Favre, Dominique Ratonnat, Didier Bourguignon, Ralph Amoussou, Alix Serman, Patrick Albenque, Christian Erickson, Nigel Hollidge, Paul Bandey, Philip Schurer
- Directors:
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Producers:
- Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz
- Writers:
- Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix
- Aka:
- Vénus Noire
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/05/2018
- Run Time:
- 162 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand-new appreciation of 'Black Venus' and the cinema of Abdellatif Kechiche by critic Neil Young Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of Black Venus
Mute and still unknown - Black Venus review by EA
Very uncomfortable and pretty voyeuristic. The film starts where Sarah Baartman's remains are discussed by French scientists as evidence of racial inferiority. Then the film moves to early 19th century London where Sarah Baartman is billed as the Hottentot Venus performing to crowds as a sort of sub human curiosity,acting out racist tropes about Africa. She is mute, weighed down with intense sadness,often drinking . Her situation is picked up by lawyers concerned she is being enslaved. The benevolent court didnt ring : slavery was still practised in the colonies-so why the concern about her? In the moment when Sarah meets 2 Black servants, we could have heard her story but this doesn't happen.
The film picks up when Sarah goes to Paris
She continues to be exploited-used as a stimulant for the orgies of the aristocracy; then in a brothel , again where she is used to stimulate perverse or illicit desires. Some details of Sarah's life come to light. But soon, diagnosed as having some STD, she dies.
The story of Sarah Baartman is still unknown.
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