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Black
A funky riff on the theme music from 2001: A Space Odyssey opens Black, a new crime thriller from France. The catchy redux leads to a bank robbery that goes quickly awry, a maniacal, island-dwelling millionaire who’s slowly turning into a snake, a volatile and crazy Russian general, witches, witch doctors, bare Nubian breasts, gunfire, machete-wielding wrestlers, and two antiheroes imbued with cat powers who dress up like the members of an African Kiss tribute band.
The initial robbery attempt in France ends in a shootout with police, and three of the four thieves end up dead. Black (MC Jean Gab’1 – the villain in District 13), the only survivor, escapes with his life but without the money. He soon gets an offer for a job in Senegal involving millions of dollars in diamonds and is immediately on a plane for the dark continent.
Black was born in Africa before moving to France, and he sees the Senegalese bankers and police as easy targets. His assumption is essentially correct except that he fails to consider that others might be after the diamonds too. And these others are crazy don’t mess-with-me-dudes. His team of robbers is assembled, introduced, and dispatched fairly quickly, and once again Black is on his own.
Cast & Crew
Director: Pierre Laffargue
Producer: Marco Cherqui, Lauranne Bourrachot
Editor: Pierre Laffargue
Screenwriter: Lucio Mad, Gabor Rassov, Pierre Laffargue
Principal Cast: MC Jean Gab'1, Carole Karemera, François Levantal, Anton Yakovlev
World Sales: Shoreline Entertainment
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Entertaining if not a but uneven, Jun 12, 2009
By J Daniel Scott
“Black is a high octane crime thriller involving Black and his gang who hightail it Senegal to pull off a heist of valuable diamonds. Little do they know a gang of crazy Russians are doing the same. Throw in an Interpol agent who has been trailing the Russians for months, fist fights, car chases,”
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