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Black & White in Color

Jean Carmet (Actor), Catherine Rouvel (Actor), Jean-Jacques Annaud (Director), Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
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Winner of the 1976 Academy Award™ for Best Foreign Language film, Black and White in Color is a voracious and timely satire on racism, colonialism, and war. Set in the Ivory Coast during the First World War, a group of bungling French colonials learns that their country is at war with Germany. Spurred on by a capricious moment of patriotism, the Frenchmen decide to attack their German neighbors who reside in a colony up river, thus touching off a brutal series of hilariously unfortunate events.



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4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, subversive, political, and a touch too familiar May 3 2011
By K. Gordon TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
Somewhat familiar, but often very funny anti-war, anti-imperialist satire/farce.

A motley bunch of French, holding down a colonial fort in Africa, discover that WWI
has been declared, so go and attack their German neighbors, using their native
semi-servants as soldiers, with disastrous results.

Few films manage to wrestle so well, with so many issues - racism, nationalism,
religious hypocrisy, etc. If it kept to it's most original moments, and didn't
occasionally fall over the edge into the silly or obviously preachy at times it
would be a great film. As it is, it's still very worth seeing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Africa and the Colonialists! July 21 2003
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This is a great black comedy about the blinders that Europeans wore while living in Africa during World War I. 6 months or so after the outbreak of World War I some French never-do-wells discover that their country is at war with the Germans. As proof of their patriotism they(with the help of uncomprehending African colonials who receive about one day's 'military training') decide to attack a German outpost across the river. What follows is a rout.
The other movie, The Sky Above, The Mud Below is also an enjoyable 'travelogue' of New Guinea over 40 years ago. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. What is surprising is that there is some male full frontal nudity in the movie. Evidently when showing the 'natives' it was permissible in those days.
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3.0 out of 5 stars RACIST FARCE July 28 2003
By Robin Simmons
Format:DVD
Another best Foreign Film Oscar© winner, 1976's BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR (Home Vision Entertainment) is a farce on racism and political chauvinism that's set in South Africa during World War I. When a group of inept French colonials learn their country is at war with Germany, they -- in a fit of idiotic patriotism -- decide to attack their German neighbors who reside up river, touching off a series of unfortunate events (as Lemony Snicket might say). A great extra is the documentary THE SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELOW. Recommended.
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