Martinique has a small but culturally distinct film output, shaped by its identity as a French overseas territory and the Négritude movement that influenced generations of Caribbean artists. Battledream Chronicle, a local sci-fi production, shows the island's filmmakers working ambitiously on limited resources. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 4.0★
There's a moment fairly early in Sugar Cane Alley where you stop watching and start remembering, even if Martinique in the 1930s is about as far from your own life as it's possible to get. That's the quiet miracle Euzhan Palcy pulls off here:
Genre Science Fiction
★½ — Battledream Chronicle (2015)
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