A portrait of a 58-year-old man battling his inner demons on the search for self-discovery.
Jacques Nolot
Director
Jacques Nolot
Pierre Pruez
Jean-Pol Dubois
L'homme
Marc Rioufol
Paul
Bastien d'Asnières
Marc
Gaetano Weysen-Volli
Le beau gosse du resto chinois
Bruno Moneglia
Bruno
Rémy Le Fur
Le commissaire-priseur
Jean Pommier
Georges, le notaire
Lyes Rabia
Khalid, le livreur
Lionel Goldstein
David
Bernard Herlem
Richard
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
This is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt like watching the origin story of a superhero…which is both good and bad.
If your upbringing was anything like mine, where the TV acted as an additional parent- there are so many new stories and perspectives to explore.
Can a piece of bad representation truly be reclaimed? We Are Pat (2025) attempts to answer this question.