Divine Carcass (1998)

1h 23m
Running Time

January 27, 1998
Release Date

Divine Carcass (1998)

1h 23m
Running Time

January 27, 1998
Release Date

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Plot.

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands we get a glimpse into the lives of its successive owners.

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Cast & Crew.

Alphonse Atacolodjou

Alphonse Atacolodjou

Himself

Simonet Biokou

Simonet Biokou

Himself

Fidèle Gbegnon

Fidèle Gbegnon

Herself

Szymon Zaleski

Szymon Zaleski

Himself

Dominique Loreau

Dominique Loreau

Producer / Director

Étienne Carton de Grammont

Étienne Carton de Grammont

Cinematographer

André Delvaux

André Delvaux

Editor

Details.

Release Date
January 27, 1998

Original Name
Divine Carcasse

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 23m

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

africa
woman director
peugeot

Wiki.

Divine Carcasse (Divine Body) is a 1998 Beninese ethnofiction film directed by the Belgian filmmaker Dominique Loreau.

Mixing fiction and ethnography, the film follows a 1955 Peugeot: initially owned by Simon, an expatriate European philosophy lecturer, the car comes to be owned by Joseph, who uses it as a taxi until it is abandoned at a mechanic's workshop. There it is scavenged for parts used by the artist Simonet Biokou to create a sculpture of the ram god Agbo. The car is caught between commodity fetishism and post-colonial fetish spirituality:

Secondhand neocolonialism becomes first-class colonized semideity [...] As a car the Peugeot works fitfully; as a divinity it works superbly.

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