The Negro (2002)

Original title

Le nèg'

Directed by

Robert Morin

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small Quebec town, a police officer pieces together the night's events from different accounts. A woman's lawn jockey vandalism turned into her death and a young Black man being beaten.

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What happens

The Negro (French: Le Nèg') is a 2002 Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin. An examination of racism, the film centres on a police officer in a small Quebec town who is trying to reconstruct, through the conflicting testimony of witnesses and participants, the events of the night before, when the petty vandalism of a woman's lawn jockey escalated within a few hours to the woman being found dead and the young Black Canadian suspected of committing the vandalism having been viciously beaten in a field. The film's original title, equivalent in Quebec French to "the nigger", was controversial, with a Black youth group in Montreal demanding that the film's title and promotional poster be changed. Morin, however, defended his choice to use a controversial title, stating that "If it stirs up some controversy, then at least people will be talking about racism." The film's cast includes Iannicko N'Doua-Légaré, Béatrice Picard, Robin Aubert, Vincent Bilodeau, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Sandrine Bisson, René-Daniel Dubois, Jean-Guy Bouchard and Dorothée Berryman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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