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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781567303315
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1567303315
Label: New Yorker Video
Languages: French (Original Language),
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
MPN: D42104D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: October 05, 2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
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Editorial Review:
Touching without being sentimental, political without being preachy, this story set in 1930s Martinique is both lyrical and powerful. Writer-director Euzhan Palcy tells the story of a young boy who is orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to live with his grandmother, who works on one of the island's sugar cane plantations. Though he is bright, she realizes he has no future if he stays on the plantation. So she does what she can to keep him in school and away from the back-breaking, will-sapping hard labor to which she's devoted her life. Can he rise above his humble beginnings? Will he forget about his self-sacrificing grandmother and leave her behind? Palcy deals with these issues with great emotion but no false sentimentality in this poignant film. In French with English subtitles. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Applicable to life anywhere 2 cultures have crossed
This was an excelent film.... It is applicable to any society, particularly Criolo, or in french 'creole' society; mixing of European and African ancestry. This reminded me so much of my own Cape Verdean Culture. Although, Cape Verdeans are Criolo mostly from African and Portuguese heritage, the stories are just about the same. An interesting voice from a different part of the world, depicting human dignity, genuinity and effects of Crioloness. Highly recommend this interesting take on humanity from ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic story!
I have grown up watching this movie and am now glad that I own it on DVD. It's one of my all time favorites. It successfully projects pride and respect that Caribbeans often have and are at times misunderstood for by others. Poverty does not equate necessarily one's morals, ethics and life skills. There is much emphasis on education and utilizing the resources large or small to achieve one's goals and live a better life. Many with a Caribbean background can relate to some of the idiosyncrasies that ... Read More
Rating:  - Sugar Cane Workers
This movie depicts the life of sugar cane field workers in the French Caribbean and the great difficulty they have in doing anything else but working in the fields. It is also a delightful movie on poor blacks in the Caribbean, showing the day-to-day fun of the youth, and the real, practical concerns of their parents. In many respects it shows the intensiveness of Sugar cane harvesting, and is a nice movie to view for those who are interested in the story of sugar and its great impact on the modern Western ... Read More
Rating: - a beautiful film.......
SUGAR CANE ALLEY was my introduction to the culture of Martinique during the 1930s. This beautiful 1983 release, directed by Euzhan Palcy, is a powerful and sensitively made character study. It follows the plight of Jose (Garry Cadenat), an eleven year old boy living with his grandmother, M'Man Tine (Darling Legitimus) in one of the poorest sections of the island. The only way the locals can (barely) sustain themselves is to toil away in the sugar cane fields (hence, the title of the film)-- a back-breaking ... Read More
Rating: - Sugar Cane Alley
Euzhan Palcy's warm, deeply felt film about mentorship and sacrifice is a life-affirming experience, and springs from autobiographical roots. Palcy recreates the plantation life with a keen sense of balance, offsetting the squalid conditions of workers with an authentic feeling of community and the innocence of childhood. All the central players are superb, particularly Cadenat and Legitimus. Another hidden gem.
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