The Middle Passage (2000)
September 9, 2000Release Date
The Middle Passage (2000)
September 9, 2000Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Djimon Hounsou
Narrator (voice - U.S. Version)

Maka Kotto
Narrator (voice)

Yasmina Hou-You-Fat
Producer

Salim Amrani
Sound Recordist

Joël Rangon
Sound

Shelby Stone
Producer

Roland Fruytier
Production Design

Jeff Florentiny
Casting

Claude Chonville
Writer

Patrick Chamoiseau
Writer

Amos Coulanges
Original Music Composer

Jacques Boumendil
Director of Photography

Aïlo Auguste-Judith
Editor

Cyril de Virginy
Second Assistant Director

Walter Mosley
Dialogue

Emmanuel Soland
Sound Designer
Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 2000
Original NamePassage du milieu
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Genres
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The Middle Passage (French: Passage du milieu) is a 2000 docudrama film directed by Guy Deslauriers about the trans-Atlantic voyage of black slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the Caribbean, a part of the triangular slave trade route called the Middle Passage. It portrays the transportation of slaves from Senegal to the sugar plantations of Martinique and the miserable and often fatal conditions on board the slave ship. The script is by Patrick Chamoiseau based on a scenario by Claude Chonville. It was a Martinique-Senegal-France co-production and was screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film has no dialogue, only a voice-over, spoken by Maka Kotto. Visually, it presents disconnected, slow-motion views of the slaves to evoke both their suffering and the resistance it produced, the source of the blues and of West Indian identity. When it was generally released in February 2001, the reviewer for La Libération said that it successfully occupied a territory "somewhere between the fiction of phantoms and the documentary of fantasies". The reviewer for Le Monde judged it "a brave but ultimately unsuccessful attempt" to fill the "[cinematic] void" on this subject.
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