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Divine Body

Divine Carcasse

Belgium, Benin

1998

88 Min
Color
French
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DIR Dominique Loreau

DP Étienne Carton de Grammont

CAST Alphonse Atacolodjou, Simonet Biokou, Fidèle Gbegnon, Szymon Zaleski

ED André Delvaux

MUSIC Philippe Woitchik

SOUND Jean-Jacques Quinet

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Divine Body is an unusual hybrid, a half fictional, half ethnographic film. It is a study in cultural contrast, between a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African one. —California Newsreel

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