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Original title: Divine carcasse
Year: 1998
Running time: 83 min.
Country: Benin
Director: Dominique Loreau
Cast: Documentary, Alphonse Atacolodjou, Szymon Zaleski, Fidèle Gbegnon, Simonet Biokou
Music: Philippe Woitchik
Cinematography: Étienne Carton de Grammont
Producer: Co-production Benin-Belgium;
Carré-Noir, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel, Office de Radio et Télévision Bénin, Sindibad Films, Underworld
Genre: Documentary. Drama
Synopsis: Divine carcasse retraces the fate of an old Peugeot that arrives in Cotonou, Benin. There, the car is passed on from one owner to the next. The film accompanies every owner throughout daily life. First, there’s Simon, who moves in the closed world of humanitarian aid workers; next, there’s Joseph, Simon’s cook, who uses the car as a clandestine taxi; finally, a bunch of car mechanics trying to bring the car back to life every time it breaks down. Until the very day the car, beyond repair, ends up as an abandoned carcass in the street . At that moment, Simonet, a blacksmith and sculptor, salvages some car parts to make the sculpture of Agbo, voodoo god of the “masters of the night,” commissioned by the wise men of the village of Ouassa. After a long trip by dugout canoe through the Benin lagoons, the sculpture will finally serve as the protecting fetish of the inhabitants of Ouassa.

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Divine Body

1998

Dominique Loreau