Haitian cinema is small in output but striking in ambition, often rooted in the island's African spiritual traditions and the legacy of political upheaval. Papa Machete, a short documentary about a master of the ancient Haitian martial art tire machèt, is a good example of that sensibility at work. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a genuinely fascinating film buried somewhere inside The Serpent and the Rainbow. A story about Vodou as a real instrument of political terror, about a powder that might actually simulate death, about the way colonial power structures exploit spiritual traditions for their own brutal ends. That'
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★★★½ — Papa Machete (2014)
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