Murder in Pacot
– In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with ..
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.
26 Apr 2015
French, Haitian
Raoul Peck
Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck, Lyonel Trouillot
Alex Descas, Ayo, Thibault Vinçon, Lovely Kermonde Fifi
After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a privileged couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubbles of their villa in Port-au-Prince's upscale neighborhood of Pacot. Destitute and in desperate need for money to repair their home, the couple decides to rent the remaining habitable part of the villa to Alex, a high-level foreign relief worker, who brings Jennifer, aka Andrémise, his Haitian girlfriend, a sassy and ambitious young woman.