Gloria Reuben Cecile Ste. Marie as Cecile Ste. Nicole Lyn Marie Ste. Marie as Marie Ste. Rachel Luttrell Lisette as Lisette. Peter Medak. More like this.
Watch options. Storyline Edit. Magloire Dazincourt, the owner of Bontemps, the largest sugar plantation of the entire South, asks his favorite cousin, Philippe Ferronaire, to marry his daughter Aglae Dazincourt and take over most of its management and family, including his colored mistress Cecile Ste. Marie, for whom he has a cottage build in New Orleans. When Magloire dies, Philippe becomes her lover and the father -not in law- of her son Marcel, named after his own father though, and promises her to get the boy educated in racially egalitarian Paris from age However while still living in the decadent creole society in New Orleans, Marcel Ste.
Marie gets in touch trough a colored carpenter with both his white and black roots, both of which bloodlines suffered greatly in the bloody racial civil wars on Haiti, a subject the American society refuses to deal with publicly, and the more people he gets to know or hears their past, the more he gets aware of social and racial matters.
Then his father Philippe gets in grave financial problems and decides to marry off his daughter to the son of a black businessman while committing the dreadfully disappointed Marcel to a two year training as local undertaker Born into one world, destined for another. Rated R for violence including a rape, and for some sexuality. User reviews 21 Review. Top review. A view of creole culture that few African Americans are aware. This movie was a fascinating look at creole culture and society that few African Americans are aware.
My own two children are by products of a paternal grandmother whose father was a member of the gens de couleur libre and a black skin woman whose parents were ex-slaves. He married outside of and against his culture and was cut off from all of his family except for one sister who took pity on her brothers plight; raising 8 children during the great depression of ; providing the family with food whenever she could.
Of course she clandestinely aided this family fearing for her own ex-communication. My daughter was fascinated by the movie. We have made it a part of our library. Details Edit.
Marie gets in touch trough a colored carpenter with both his white and black roots, both of which bloodlines suffered greatly in the bloody racial civil wars on Haiti, a subject the American society refuses to deal with publicly, and the more people he gets to know or hears their past, the more he gets aware of social and racial matters.
Then his father Philippe gets in grave financial problems and decides to marry off his daughter to the son of a black businessman while committing the dreadfully disappointed Marcel to a two year training as local undertaker…. Please read the announcement on the front page. Name required. Mail will not be published required. Search for:. Night mode. RSS Feed.
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