That's pretty much all that needs to be said about this bizarre exercise in reverse-colonialism, as an explorer (in blackface with very prominent white lips!) lands in his globular airship from Africa in the desolate "terra incognita" of France, 2028. There he espies a gorgeous native savage (Ms. Hessling) who treats him to an example of and a lesson in the Charleston, the "native dance of white people" or something such.
Ms. Hessling is very sexy, the film is pretty erotic by 20s standards, there are some interesting special effects, but it's a silly trifle at best, and of course the blackface is....not something we want to remember from Jean Renoir. Nice print on the Lionsgate "early Renoir" 3-disc DVD set.
Ms. Hessling is very sexy, the film is pretty erotic by 20s standards, there are some interesting special effects, but it's a silly trifle at best, and of course the blackface is....not something we want to remember from Jean Renoir. Nice print on the Lionsgate "early Renoir" 3-disc DVD set.