Sugar Cane Alley
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Drama
103 min
Young José and his grandmother live in Martinique, a small village, in the early '30s. Nearly everyone works at cutting cane and barely earning a living. José listens to stories of Africa told by an old sugar cane worker. After the old man dies, the boy writes the stories in his own words and submits them as a school essay. His telling is so eloquent that the schoolmaster accuses him of plagiarising them from a book and the boy is traumatised. Says Roger Ebert: “Every once in a while a movie will come out of nowhere. The actors will be people we’ve never seen before, the location will be an unfamiliar one, the director’s name will be brand new, and everything will fit together so naturally that we wonder where these people have been all their lives. In a way, the very story of <i>Sugar Cane Alley</i> answers that question.”
Directed by
Euzhan Palcy
Music
Groupe Malavoi