Raoul Peck : 2014
Murder in Pacot
Barely a couple of days after the Haitian earthquake destroys most of their villa, a man and his wife are visited by a team of foreign surveyors and given an ultimatum: fix it entirely in a few weeks, or it will be razed to the ground. The newly penniless couple rent the habitable part of the villa to Alex – a relief worker who benefits from the high remuneration granted to foreign humanitarian personnel in Haiti – in order to put his rent payments towards repairs. To their surprise, their new tenant also comes with a Haitian girlfriend, Andrémise, a sassy and enterprising young woman who has renamed herself Jennifer to attract foreign suitors in Port-au-Prince. As the ground rumbles with aftershocks, the once-privileged couple, now destitute and helpless, comes for the first time face-to-face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society. Raoul Peck's feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and had its European premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.
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