The only black student in an all-white drama school, apprentice actor Steve Tientcheu is constantly reminded of his skin colour by the roles that his teachers and peers at the Cours Simon offer him. In her first feature film, Alice Diop points up the failure of the theatre world to change the way people see and are seen. The filmmaker paints the portrait of a young man and actor in the making, in an environment polarised between Paris and Aulnay-sous-bois. Steve’s longing to play the role of Danton embodies the need to reconcile these two poles, and echoes the thirst for liberty and equality asserted in the final speech of this figure of the republican model. LL
SÉANCE
KATORZA
TUE 19 > 6.30pm
