Awash in '90s style and nocturnal atmosphere, Claire Denis' rarely screened second film No Fear, No Die plunges us into a seedy underworld on the outskirts of Paris. One night from the back of an anonymous truck emerges Jocelyn (Alex Descas), a hard-up but stoic and elegant man from the Caribbean, with his Beninese friend Dah (Isaach de Bankolé) in tow. The two have been summoned to suss out a potential arena for clandestine, illegal cock fighting at the behest of a louche restaurateur in ill-fitting Dior (Jean-Claude Brialy), an old acquaintance of Jocelyn's mother. Amid this ramshackle no man's land, buried within the labyrinthine confines of the off-the-highway restaurant cum nightclub complex, they live among the roosters that they fastidiously feed, train, and brutally fight for money. "No fear, no die" is the name of a prized white bird that Jocelyn grows attached to, the thought of its death increasingly unbearable ― not unlike his solitude, disillusionment, and longing for home.
Told through Dah's clear-eyed, unemotional point-of-view, Denis' film is a fascinating and extremely visceral character study of two marginalized men: their unspoken solidarity, resistance, and dignity, as well as the high stakes of their survival. "Drawing inspiration from the writings of Frantz Fanon, the ruggedly unsentimental and psychologically evocative No Fear No Die is a forceful examination of the lives of immigrants in France and of the psychic toll of the violence imposed by colonizers upon the colonized" (NYFF). (TIFF)
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S'en fout la mort
Genre
Cinema • Drama
Duration
1:33
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Claire Denis / 1990 / France, Germany / French with English subtitles
S'en fout la mort
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