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Sarah Miansoni

Caught on camera: French cinema finally reckons with its colonial past

On a bright Sunday afternoon in Paris, in a packed cinema, applause erupts as end credits roll on the screen.

The film that just concluded is neither the latest superhero blockbuster nor a mainstream comedy. It’s a biopic about Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), a psychiatrist from the former French colony of Martinique, which is now a French overseas territory.

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