This 35mm screening is part of the 'Black and Banned' season at BFI Southbank. You can find details of all the films in the season here
Chicago Reader review:
A black painter trained in Holland arrives on the Dutch island of Curacao in the 1940s to execute a church mural, but his proposal to model his Virgin on a local mixed-race woman provokes crude theological debate as to whether Mary must be shown as white. Felix de Rooy's 1990 film is less a drama than a rambling and often nostalgic portrait of life on the island built of varied details, including the seduction of the painter by the governor's wife, episodes of gay sex, and a mother who beats her adult daughter.
Fred Camper
Here (and above) is an extract.
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