French Wedding Caribbean Style

Ambitious tale of a French black family. The eldest daughter’s marriage to a white man leads to an explosion of family secrets, unravelling an intricate web identity issues; the issue of ‘blackness’ interlaced with gender relations and fights about rum. Meanwhile the victim’s pretext and the image of the white man as the source of all evil get a good kicking. The story develops as the home video camera slides through the family members’ hands during the wedding day. Born in Paris but originally from Martinique, Julius-Amédée Laou wrote and directed (theatre)drama. His first short film Solitaire à micro ouvert (1984) won in Venice. La vieille Quimboiseuse et le Majordome (1987) was his first long feature film, French wedding Caribbean Style (2004) his second.

Film schedule

City		Location		Date		Time		Extra
Rotterdam		Cinerama		10-09-2006		13:30:00
Amsterdam		Rialto (hoofdlocatie/main venue)		11-09-2006		14:30:00
Amsterdam		Imagine IC		15-09-2006		19:00:00
Amsterdam		Rialto (hoofdlocatie/main venue)		18-09-2006		19:45:00