Agathe Cléry (2008)

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Agathe Cléry: Directed by Étienne Chatiliez. With Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Dominique Lavanant, Isabelle Nanty. The ultimate nightmare for a racist? Becoming as black as the people she abhors. This is exactly what happens to Agathe Cléry: she’s struck down with a rare disorder of the adrenal cortex glands that causes the skin to darken inexorably…

“This is one of those French films (and there are many of them!) that had me sitting there with a smile on my face throughout! The topic is certainly not an easy one: A racist white woman whose skin starts turning darker and darker, in the process having to adapt her views – radically.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo to turn this storyline into a movie that is so funny and entertaining (some great musical numbers!), yet at the same time thought-provoking and heart-warming, that is quite a feat. And the director did a marvellous job at bringing that all together and showing us a part of French society that I donu0026#39;t find thematized in many films, or certainly not in such an entertaining manner.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAbsolutely loved it from beginning to end. The only thing I donu0026#39;t understand is why the IMDb rating is only a very low 4.7. I believe this movie deserves a lot better.”

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