Word: voodoos
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...With voodoo dances arranged by Choreographer Jack Cole and plantation music the Royal Caribbean calypso ensemble, Lydia Bailey is redolent of a studio backlot jungle. As a result, moviegoers may get the feeling that the camera, by moving a frame to the right or left, might catch sight of a Southern California orange-juice stand...
Lydia Bailey--An adaptation of Kenneth Robert's novel of sex and voodoo in Haiti. Starts Wednesday at the RKO Memorial...
...hard to classify, showed skill with out-of-the-way locales. Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them dealt with a highly unconventional missionary in British Guiana. From Haiti came The Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, a fascinating study of the power of voodoo...
Rigaud Benoit made the Christ child in his Nativity a mulatto out of deference to Rodman, though his personal opinion is that "God is white, and the Devil is black, or else dark red, like Damballa [a voodoo deity]." Philome Obin prayed every day before going to work on the center panel above the altar, stuck a chromo cliche "Eye of God" in one corner and painted a strangely feminine, death-rigid Christ crucified in a Haitian street. Castera Bazile, the only one of the Haitian muralists with a monumental sense of figure composition, used a similar street scene...
Living Roots. Some critics call Prefet DuFaut's Temptation unconsciously Byzantine; others can see no sign of Christian elements in it. Wilson Bigaud, who attends voodoo rites more often than church, made his Wedding at Cana a lively Haitian party dominated by a Christ with a weak, drained face and a mighty hand ("He is praying that the miracle will be a success," Bigaud says). Leontus' Annunciation, boldly composed to fill a difficult, wedge-shaped corner, has a full measure of the urgency that marks the cathedral's best murals...