Murder in Pacot
Murder in Pacot | |
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Cinematography | Éric Guichard |
Edited by | Alexandra Strauss |
Music by | Alexeï Aïgui |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Doc&Film International |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Country | Haiti |
Languages | French Haitian Creole |
Murder in Pacot (
The story, a traditional stranger-comes-to-town plot line examining how the earthquake upended Haiti's strongly divided class system, is loosely inspired by the 1968 mystery
The shooting location of Peck's film, a three level villa, lies in the already completely rebuild neighbourhood Pacot in Port-au-Prince. The first ideas for the film came when Peck drove daily through that wealthy area while shooting the documentary Assistance Mortelle seeing that the rich were equally affected by the earthquake.[3][4]
By mid-May 2014 the film was ready for editing and according to director Peck is expected to finish by September to be announced at the
The film was shown in the Panorama category of the
The international sales of the film are handled by Doc&Film.[15][16]
Plot
An upper middle class affluent couple in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, tries to rebuild their lives after the earthquake of 2010. They live in the ruins of their luxury home which was almost completely destroyed, in the district Pacot. The tension is even greater because their young adopted son is also missing.[17] Shortly after the earthquake they are visited by a team of foreign experts which tell them to repair the house or it will be razed. In order to earn some money for the repair they move to the previous servants' quarters and rent out the only still-intact room to Alex a foreign aid worker of unspecified nationality. The tenant, who came with good intentions to Haiti, meets soon a beautiful and naive 17-year-old Haitian girl, Andrémise, from a modest background who lives in the neighbourhood. To the couples surprise he moves in together with this sassy and enterprising young woman, who calls herself Jennifer to attract foreign men. They forge a relationship but soon her maliciousness comes to light and someone gets killed. The once privileged and now helpless and defenseless owners are for the first time faced with the rigid contradictions of Haitian society.[4][18][19][20]
Cast
- Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakinas wife
- Alex Descas as husband
- Thibault Vinçon as Alex
- Lovely Kermonde Fifi as Andrémise / Jennifer
- Zinedine Soualem as Leonetti
Production
Background
Peck stated that he wanted to approach the serious consequences of the disaster in another way than the usual images of slums and homeless camps. He was struck by seeing the collapsed homes of the prosperous class, the amazing visual of wealth in ruins.
Raoul Peck remarks in an interview:
- Visually it was incredible, this image of wealth, totally crumbled. That story didn't interest many people, because you could do better images in the slums, in the camps, in downtown Port-au-Prince.[21] (Visuellement, c’était incroyable, cette image de la richesse en ruines. Cette histoire n’a pas intéressé beaucoup de gens parce qu’il était possible de faire de meilleures images dans les bidonvilles, les camps et le centre-ville de Port-au-Prince.)[22]
Funding
The film production was supported by the French TV channel
Casting
In early March the casting started and young Haitian women and men between 18–27 years were invited to apply to participate in trials in order to obtain one of the main roles in the film. Lovely Kermonde Fifi, a young debutant actress and poet,
Screenplay
According to Raoul Peck the script was written by 'three hands'.[4] Haitian novelist and poet Lyonel Trouillot[36] and French screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer offered to collaborate with Peck to work on the script.[3][34]
Music and sound
The music for the film was composed by Alexeï Aïgui and the soundtrack was released together with other film music by the composer on a CD (MEURTRE À PACOT (2014) 18. Meurtre à Pacot (suite) (06:49)).[37] Sound was created by Eric Boisteau and Benjamin Laurent.
Filming
The filming started on 12 April 2014 and ended 9 May 2014
Awards and nominations
- Ricardo Alegria Price for best film in the Caribbean at the San Juan International Film Festival 2015, Puerto Rico[40][41]
DVD
The German DVD label 'Filmgalerie 451' from Berlin released on 3 June 2016 a double DVD with the film. The DVDs contain the following extras: on DVD 1 the press conference at the Berlinale 2015 with the director and the actors (42 minutes), the cinema trailer and a booklet, on DVD 2 the documentary 'Fatal Assistance' by Raoul Peck (100 minutes).[42]
References
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- ^ Raoul Peck’s Newest Film, “Murder in Pacot,” Is a Mystery Set in Haiti
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- ^ a b "Haïti-Cinéma : Raoul Peck boucle le tournage de "Meurtre à Pacot"". AlterPresse. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ^ Punter, Jennie (19 August 2014). "Toronto Film Festival Completes Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Houpt, Simon (19 August 2014). "TIFF unveils dozens of big Hollywood names on guest list, including Robert Downey Jr. and Keira Knightley". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Toronto International Film Festival: Masters » Murder in Pacot Archived 2014-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ 2014 Official Film Schedule
- ^ Panorama 2015: Geschichte erzählen, um Zukunft zu gestalten
- ^ BERLINALE 2015: les premiers films de la section Panorama
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- ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (9 September 2014). "Doc & Film seals National Gallery, Melody deals". Screen International. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
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- ^ Janvier 2012 CONTRATS DE SUBVENTION ATTRIBUÉS EN SEPTEMBRE 2012
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- ^ The ACP-EU support programme for the culture sector of the ACP states, ACPCultures+, is financing 20 projects for a total of €8,3 million. Archived 2014-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ Filmgalerie 451: Mord in Pacot