Take Care France

Date:: 12 Jul 2025, 20:00–21:15

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A cheeky satire about assimilation and love life of Africans in Paris, inspired by the French New Wave. Russian premiere as part of the film programme Tashkent-1970. The Festival That Never Was.

À nous deux France!
1970, Désiré Écaré

Côte d’Ivoire—France
61 minutes, French with Russian subtitles

Starring: Fabienne Fabre, Frédérique Layne, Guy d’Avout, Pierre Garnier

An elegant dandy nicknamed Tarzan arrives in Paris from Côte d’Ivoire. He is broke, but has plenty of trouble with his personal life: on the one hand, a confused white wife and a young daughter, on the other, a black lover demanding attention.

Shot from Take Care France, 1970

The theme of African women neglected by blacks marrying French women plus the comicalities of double assimilation, seen in the mode of playful seriousness by “an African Lubitsch”.

— Louis Séguin, Cahiers du Cinéma

The pioneer of Ivorian cinema, Desiree Ekare, constructs a sparkling and merciless comedy of situations, turning the New Wave techniques inside out.

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