It’s the year of blaxploitation! Earlier this year a few folks had the chance to catch up with Black Dynamite (our review) and it looks like a few more will have the opportunity to revel in the greatness with another film coming at us later this year.
Pierre Laffargue’s Black stars MC Jean Gab’1 as the titular character, a Senegalese bank-robber who is thinking about going straight when he gets a call from his cousin that a suitcase full of contraband diamonds has been left at the bank where he works. The apparently easy pickings spurs Black into assembling a new crew and going for broke except he’s missing a key point: he’s not the only one looking for the suitcase.
The film screened at SXSW earlier this week where it picked up a lot of love from both audience and critics (including one of my favourite critics Peter Martin) and the trailer certainly suggests this is a fun romp. I’m not familiar with blaxploitation films but this definitely has a fun 70s vibe to it.
Black opens in France in July and us lucky Canadians will have a chance to check it out in August. Unfortunately, at this point the film doesn’t have a US distributor.
Trailer is tucked under the seat!
I bet this will not come to English Canada, and only Quebec. That’d be a shame.
Oh, and there is also Jim Jarmusch’s heist/crime film starring Isaach De Bankolé. Good stuff.
I enjoy French crime films. Hope it gets a US distributor!
Not to worry Kurt, BLACK will come out in the rest of Canada, Quebec peeps won’t be the only ones treated to the fun!
Bless you fine folks at Evocative for distributing the very fine Hansel & Gretel in Toronto at the end of the month and picking up the very fine HAZARD (did you guys ever put that DVD out?)
Black appears to be in good hands in English Canada then. I’m pretty happy to be corrected on this one.
Even more love for Evokative: Hansel & Gretel also opening in Vancouver in April.
looks really cool, thanks for the trailer.
Hey Kurt here’s the DVD line-up:
Le Tueur: Now in stores
Crying Fist: April 21st
Hansel & Gretel: May 26th
Hazard: June 16th
Adrift in Tokyo will also be coming to screens in April, Montreal April 10th, Toronto April 24th, then Vancouver.
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