Divine Carcass (1998)
1h 23m
Running Time
January 27, 1998Release Date
Divine Carcass (1998)
1h 23m
Running Time
January 27, 1998Release Date
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Alphonse Atacolodjou
Self
Simonet Biokou
Self
Szymon Zaleski
Himself
Fidèle Gbegnon
Self
Dominique Loreau
Director
Étienne Carton de Grammont
Cinematographer
André Delvaux
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 27, 1998
Original NameDivine Carcasse
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Genres
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.