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Jean Gentil

Directed by Israel Cárdenas, Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán, Laura Amelia Guzmán

Dominican Republic, Mexico, Germany 2010; 84 min
Original version: Spanish, Haitian Creole
Genre: Drama
- Orizzonti Special Mention, Venice IFF
- Bronze Alexander, Thessaloniki IFF
- Special Jury Prize, Guadalajara IFF
- Grand Prize Winner, International Competition, Jeonju IFF
Venice IFF: Orizzonti

Laura Amelia Guzmán

Synopsis

A morning at Santo Domingo begins for Jean, a middle-aged Haitian professor on an increasingly desperate journey to find his place in the world or a reason to live. The man disappears into the reality that surrounds him. The bloom of the island’s landscape can’t hide the worries of its inhabitants.

Director's Statement

We want to give time and space to the character, so that in Jean’s transit, we are able to recognize the changing scenery as a character and the narrative conductor of the story; to sense the contrast between a growing city and the “tranquility” of the countryside and coasts that are about to disappear, and feel man in his actions of construction and destruction, human development against the personal development of many like Jean Gentil.