The Lumière Cinemas and Alliance Française Christchurch will screen their last 2025 film on 15 December. A hectic metafictional mockumentary that’s also a substantive political critique of French society.

While organizing a protest, Jean-Pascal Zadi considers racial discrimination and his identity as a French Black man through a satirical lens....

The actor, director, and TV personality Jean-Pascal Zadi, who co-directed with John Wax, plays a comedic version of himself: Jean-Pascal, a Black online-comedy star whose efforts to break into movies are thwarted by the industry’s racist stereotypes (which are sharply satirized). Meanwhile, Jean-Pascal attempts to launch a march for Black men—despite having no grassroots organization, only a top-down focus on Black celebrities whom he approaches, with a tone-deaf naïveté, to promote it. The movie is presented as a documentary about Jean-Pascal, shot by a crew that follows him around (and that he acknowledges with uproarious stage glances and asides), and it features a bevy of star cameos (including Omar Sy). But its earnest focus is the police violence that Black people in France endure, and the lack of a historic French civil-rights movement to inspire and energize current-day protest.

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