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No Fear, No Die (French: S'en fout la mort) is a 1990 drama film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis in collaboration with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It features Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas and Solveig Dommartin.
Sep 5, 1990 · No Fear, No Die: Directed by Claire Denis. With Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin, Christopher Buchholz. Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
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- Drama
- Claire Denis
- 1990-09-05
Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas star in the under-seen second feature by celebrated director Claire Denis, an unflinching portrait of two Black immigrant men from Benin and French Antilles, scraping out a living through illegal cockfights in a restaurant basement on the outskirts of Paris.
January 19, 2023 9:00. “ Elegant, spare, poetic, uncomfortably quiet, and, at times, inscrutable, No Fear, No Die is a little-known masterwork in the oeuvre of Denis.”. Claire Denis’s underseen follow-up to her exceptional debut Chocolat was among the few absentees in our major 2019 Denis retrospective. Let this dazzling new 2022 ...
No Fear, No Die. “Men, cocks … same thing,” laments one of the protagonists in Claire Denis’s infrequently screened 1990 film No Fear, No Die, as he observes the chickens he trains for a grimy, low-stakes cockfighting outfit in the industrial working-class outskirts of Paris.
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. A Film Desk Release.
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