It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, égalité, Fraternité’.　　Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique.

西印度群島是由Cyril,Aventurin,費爾南·貝爾塞,羅蘭·伯汀,Gérard,Bloncourt,Toto,Bissainthe,菲利普·克利夫諾主演的劇情片全集,在1979年拍攝法國上映播出,星辰影院提供了西印度群島電影,西印度群島電影高清版,西印度群島免費在線觀看,并且還可以支持手機看,不需要下載播放器,方便廣大影迷。