Raoul Peck has been called many things: "political", "postcolonial public intellectual", and a provocateur. But he is, of course, best known as a filmmaker and one of the most incisive and powerful ones working today.
Born in Haiti, because of his father’s profession working at the U.N. he and his family travelled constantly from the Congo, to the U.S. and to France. Which might explain why he makes such films such as Sometimes in April and Moloch Tropical which explore universal concerns and how the powerful forces of politics, nature and personalities, mould and shape his characters and their actions no matter in what country they’re in.
Since his first film, De…
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