A documentary that quietly avoids Caribbean visual clichés, director Malaury Eloi Paisley, expanding on her short Chanzy Blues, produces a compelling ground-level view of life in the Guadeloupean city Point-a-Pitre.
Expressed through pointedly chosen, consistently memorable interviews with a handful of locals, Tales Of A City finds voices in a homeless drug addict, an ageing former political activist who reminisces on dreams of revolution, and another who recites texts by writer Joël Beuze and anti-colonialist Amílcar Cabral.
Behind them, Paisley captures a place in a state of flux, where once towering buildings are torn to the ground, and the machines reducing them to rubble resemble monstrous predators. Recalling recent docs such as Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Estate, A Reverie, or at the other end of the accommodation spectrum, Dreaming Walls, L’Homme Vertige forces you to lament changing cityscapes and the fate of residents at the mercy of local authorities and property.
Expressed through pointedly chosen, consistently memorable interviews with a handful of locals, Tales Of A City finds voices in a homeless drug addict, an ageing former political activist who reminisces on dreams of revolution, and another who recites texts by writer Joël Beuze and anti-colonialist Amílcar Cabral.
Behind them, Paisley captures a place in a state of flux, where once towering buildings are torn to the ground, and the machines reducing them to rubble resemble monstrous predators. Recalling recent docs such as Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Estate, A Reverie, or at the other end of the accommodation spectrum, Dreaming Walls, L’Homme Vertige forces you to lament changing cityscapes and the fate of residents at the mercy of local authorities and property.
- 5/7/2024
- by Sunil Chauhan
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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