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★
Euzhan Palcy's Sugar Cane Alley arrived in 1983 as something of a landmark, not just for Caribbean cinema but for French-language filmmaking more broadly. Set in Martinique during the early 1930s, the film draws on Joseph Zobel's 1950 autobiographical novel La Rue Cases-Nègres, a
Genre Science Fiction
★½ — Battledream Chronicle (2015)
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