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THREE DANCING SLAVES / Gaël Morel (2004)

October 5th, 2005 by Scott Marks

Gaël Morel’s THREE DANCING SLAVES (2004)

Le Clan (2004)

Directed by: Gaël Morel

Written by: Christophe Honoré, Gaël Morel

Cast: Nicolas Cazalé, Stéphane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez, Salim Kechiouche, Bruno Lochet, Vincent Martinez, Jackie Berroyer, Aure Atika, Nicolas Paz, Mathias Olivier, Gary Mary, Geordie Piseri-Diaz, Clément Dettli, Pierre Vallin, Janine Ribollet

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Genres: Drama

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

What sounds like the revival of a 1950’s Yvonne DeCarlo programmer is actually a contemporary story of three brothers each facing a crucial turning point in their lives. How the original title “Le Clan” translates into Three Dancing Slaves is easily the film’s most thought-provoking question.

Welcome to a bleak and thoroughly unredeemed universe. Not unlike the racially-mixed adoptees that comprise John Singleton’s Four Brothers, here is a family torn apart by the recent death of their mother. The film is broken up into three segments, one per sibling. Marc (Nicolas Cazale) is a brutal skinhead who, when not working out, smokes, does drugs and dines under the Golden Arches. Marc’s group of friends seems to be straight, yet they engage in circle-jerks and use vibrating cell phones as sexual aids.

Fresh out of jail, older brother Christophe (Stephane Rideau) finds employment at a local ham factory that will hopefully keep him on the straight-and-narrow and away from the hellbent Marc. Olivier (Thomas Dumerchez), the openly gay brother, and the only one who seems to be in a healthy relationship, is given the shortest amount of screen time.

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