“A quietly confident visual poem to Haiti and its turbulent history, Eat, for This Is My Body is a solid achievement in avant-garde ethnographic formalism.” VARIETY

Eat, for this is my body
Michelange Quay

TORONTO - VISIONS

SUNDANCE 2008 – NEW FRONTIER



synopsis

A visceral, hypnotic trip that will take us to the spiritual core of the suffering of Haiti. Madame has come to feed the starving black masses and they have come to be fed. This hunger, this desire will bring Madame out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, smell the reality of their suffering, the reality of her own body. She will at last touch, and be touched.

English Title :

Eat, for this is my body

Original Title : Eat, for this is my body
Country : France/Haiti
Year of production : 2007
Duration : 105’
Genre : Drama
Cast : Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie
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