{"id":12533,"date":"2011-03-08T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12533"},"modified":"2021-11-23T02:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:28:19","slug":"under-the-moons-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12533","title":{"rendered":"Under the Moon\u2019s Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the Moon\u2019s Light<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Directory of World Cinema
\n<\/a>2011<\/p>\n

English Title:<\/strong> Under the Moon\u2019s Light
\nOriginal Title:<\/strong> Sous la clart\u00e9 de la lune
\n<\/a>Country of Origin:<\/strong> Burkina Faso<\/a>, France<\/a>
\nStudio:<\/strong> Les Films de la plaine, NDK productions
\nDirector:<\/strong> Apolline Traor\u00e9
\nProducer(s):<\/strong> Idrissa Ou\u00e9draogo
\nScreenplay:<\/strong> Apolline Traor\u00e9
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Daniel Barrau
\nEditor:<\/strong> Lucie Thierry
\nRuntime:<\/strong> 90 minutes
\nGenre:<\/strong> Drama
\nLanguage:<\/strong> Moore (Mor\u00e9), French
\nStarring\/Cast:<\/strong> Rasman\u00e9 Ou\u00e9draogo, Sylvain Lecann, Abdoulaye Kon\u00e9, Tania Azar, Silvie Homawoo
\nYear:<\/strong> 2004
\nVolume:<\/strong> African \/ Nigerian<\/p>\n

Reviewed by: Z\u00e9lie Asava<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sous la clart\u00e9 de la lune<\/em> interrogates African women\u2019s personal and cultural histories and identities by foregrounding the experiences of mixed-race women and their families, thus exploring the history of interracial relationships in Africa and its diaspora.<\/p>\n

Its central story begins before the narrative starts, about 10 years earlier in a small village in Burkina Faso.\u00a0 Patrick (Sylvain Lecann), a young white Frenchman steals his mixed-race daughter moments after her young Burkinab\u00e9 mother has given birth.\u00a0 As the film opens we see the child, who has been raised in France, return to her mother\u2019s village with her father for what is supposed to be a brief encounter with her other home and family.\u00a0 Her mother Kaya (Silvie Homawoo) has been mute since the incident.\u00a0 The mixed-race daughter Martine (Tania Azar) hates the village and its inhabitants, thinking they are all inferior.\u00a0 She believes her mother to be dead.\u00a0\u00a0 Her father Patrick treats the villagers as his servants.\u00a0 The villagers have been waiting two years for an engineer and Patrick is in town to fix their water pump, as well as to discuss the past with Kaya.\u00a0 While the locals may reject this white man because of the brutal history he left behind, they need his expertise and money.\u00a0 The story thus has immediate resonances with Franco-African colonialism and neo-colonialism.<\/p>\n

The film follows the three lead characters as they negotiate their differences to form a family.\u00a0 A fourth key figure, Habib (Abdoulaye Kon\u00e9), emerges as a young man in love with Kaya and through him spectators are introduced to village life, local systems of power and love, and come to realise that the story may also be read as a series of metaphors on issues of identity…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under the Moon\u2019s Light Directory of World Cinema 2011 English Title: Under the Moon\u2019s Light Original Title: Sous la clart\u00e9 de la lune Country of Origin: Burkina Faso, France Studio: Les Films de la plaine, NDK productions Director: Apolline Traor\u00e9 Producer(s): Idrissa Ou\u00e9draogo Screenplay: Apolline Traor\u00e9 Cinematographer: Daniel Barrau Editor: Lucie Thierry Runtime: 90 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,24,125,8,842,25],"tags":[5639,5640,245],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-videos","category-women","tag-burkina-faso","tag-directory-of-world-cinema","tag-zelie-asava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62359,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12533\/revisions\/62359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}