Between Couscous, winner of three César Awards, and the Cannes triumph of BIue Is the Warmest Colour, AbdeIlatif Kechiche made Black Venus, a stark portrait of the Iife of Saartjie Baartman, aIso known as the Hottentot Venus .
Baartman was taken from South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as a freak show. Presented semi-nude, her physique especialIy her large buttocks was the source of much curiosity. But as her fame spread, so too did her expIoitation...
Centred on a remarkable performance by Cuban actor Yahima Torres as Baartman, Black Venus provides a bleak but barbed exploration of sex, science, race, colonialism and sociaI attitudes. |
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