Born under Z
Director Frédérique Pollet Rouyer
Countries France, Belgium
Duration 75 min
Synopsis
50 years after his exile in FR, Robert's past, as a mixed-race child from IndoCN, caught up with him. He decides to go back in time to try to understand why he never knew his fr father and the reasons he was separated from his vi mother. As Robert searches for answers, the film sheds the light on an obscure episode in fr colonialism, and which the Republic referred to then, as the handling of the mixed race problem. In the course of his journey across FR and Vietnam, the film unfolds the tragic fate of a vi woman in times of colonialism, ans the impossible quest of his son, Robert, trapped by collective amnesia. A film about blood, national identity, the sheer weight of domination on all involved and the personal wounds of colonialism. Also a movie whom hero finally attain appeasement by facing the past.
50 years after his exile in FR, Robert's past, as a mixed-race child from IndoCN, caught up with him. He decides to go back in time to try to understand why he never knew his fr father and the reasons he was separated from his vi mother. As Robert searches for answers, the film sheds the light on an obscure episode in fr colonialism, and which the Republic referred to then, as the handling of the mixed race problem. In the course of his journey across FR and Vietnam, the film unfolds the tragic fate of a vi woman in times of colonialism, ans the impossible quest of his son, Robert, trapped by collective amnesia. A film about blood, national identity, the sheer weight of domination on all involved and the personal wounds of colonialism. Also a movie whom hero finally attain appeasement by facing the past.