Moloch Tropical

trinidad+tobago film festival 2010 screening

Year 2009
Duration 107 minutes
Type Dramatic feature
Country Haiti/France
Language French, Creole and English, with English subtitles
Director(s) Raoul Peck
Rating 18 And Over
Contact contact@velvet-film.com

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High up in the mountains of northern Haiti is the towering Citadelle, from where the nation’s autocratic though “democratically” elected president, Jean de Dieu, effects his reign. Styling himself as an imperial monarch, the president keeps a paranoid eye on the television news and a lascivious one on his maidservant. All the while he ruthlessly stamps out opposition to his regime and enforces the rules with a chilling, erratic terror.

On the day that the president is set to welcome a host of foreign dignitaries in celebration of Haiti’s bicentennial, an uprising breaks out in the streets. As the uprising grows and his guests cancel on him one by one, the president comes undone, mumbling to himself like a mad Shakespearean king as fate closes in. Part elegant chamber drama, part absurdist political satire, Moloch Tropical is a scathing critique of absolute power and the corrupt legacy of colonial rule.

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Date: Tue 31 Aug, 2010
Category: ttff news and features
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