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The Middle Passage

2001, Movie, 78 mins

The Middle Passage: Review

A darkly poetic evocation of the horrors of the slave trade, embodied in the voyage of one French slave ship across the Atlantic. Rather than present an array of dry facts and figures or risk trivializing history by bending it to the needs of fictitious narrative, Martiniquais filmmaker Guy Deslauriers weaves the raw material of the painful past into an evocative tapestry of images, simultaneously impressionistic and painstakingly detailed. Djimon Hounsou narrates. Read the complete review for The Middle Passage