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...years to the day after the paramilitary squad he once helped direct massacred at least 15 people in the seaside slum of Raboteau. The victims, many of whom were tortured and made to lie in open sewers before being shot, were supporters of then Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had been ousted in a 1991 military coup. U.S. troops restored Aristide to power in 1994, and Chamblain, who fled Haiti, was convicted in absentia the following year for helping to lead the Raboteau massacre. Chamblain, who denies involvement in Raboteau, returned to Haiti this past February to help lead...
...Lambs, Beloved and a forthcoming Gulf War-based remake of The Manchurian Candidate) behind him and, it would seem from just glancing that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti’s turbulent political history...
...reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support of the ruling power. The transformation of Papa Doc’s regime into Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s into military rule into Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s hopeful but corrupt and fragmented government is portrayed as near-seemless in the film. The benefit of the documentary’s historical overview, and Dominique?...
Most of the interviews with Jean Dominique, his wife Michelle and employees of Radio Haiti Inter were filmed in the late 80s and early 90s, giving even this footage a sense of vintage. Other interviews are more recent, filmed in the late 90s, following the resurrection of the Aristide regime after an American military force landed on the island as peackeepers. Not only are these dispersed interviews helpful in gauging the difference in the political scene in such a crucial decade, shining light on a political history that is muddled in many newspaper accounts’ fast and loose renderings...
...Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults. Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she?...