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Another Planet

  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 33m
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5.5/10
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Another Planet (1999)
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A young women unsure of her cultural heritage, arrives in rural Quebec, Canada.A young women unsure of her cultural heritage, arrives in rural Quebec, Canada.A young women unsure of her cultural heritage, arrives in rural Quebec, Canada.

  • Director
    • Christene Browne
  • Writer
    • Christene Browne
  • Stars
    • Sandy Daley
    • Kevin White
    • Marcia Brown
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    • Director
      • Christene Browne
    • Writer
      • Christene Browne
    • Stars
      • Sandy Daley
      • Kevin White
      • Marcia Brown
    • 3User reviews
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    Sandy Daley
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    • Cassandra Jones
    Kevin White
    • Patrick Jones
    Marcia Brown
    • Mary Jones
    Daniel Lévesque
    Daniel Lévesque
    • Luc Leblanc
    Monique MacDonald
    • Sylvie Leblanc
    Tiemoko Simaga
    • Abdoulaye Diallo
    Mathieu Dutan
    • Jean Leblanc
    Panchetta S. Barnett
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      • Christene Browne
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      • Christene Browne
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    4Abhaya

    Inspired moments of comedy, but crippled by disjointedness.

    The liner notes to this movie lets the viewer in on the fact that a lot of it is riffed from the writer/director's own journals & experiences, and one can tell that she was trying to get across just how confusing it is to be young, black, and questioning your cultural heritage (and yourself), so it comes as somewhat of a disappointment that every time a bit of soul seemed to be imbued into the film, and you really started caring about the characters, she'd chop up the atmosphere & warmth she worked so hard to achieve with interspersed scenes of somewhat poorly dislodged & acted narrative. Sometimes voice-over narrative makes a movie spectacular, but other times it is used as a crutch, either to move the plot forward or to make up for a story that the writer didn't quite know how to SHOW the viewer -- or wasn't sure she wanted to trust the viewer to make out for him or herself.

    Without getting too specific here, the ending jolts the viewer once again, first with a tease of a happy ending, then with the letdown of about the most depressing ending I've seen in a long time. Due to its rather sudden switch off, "Another Planet" leaves one with no sense of closure -- and in the process, seems to kill the sense of hope in the viewer that the heroine is striving to maintain in herself (for the narrator and lead actress of this film is, beyond all else, stubbornly stoic).

    Of course, one might question whether the director herself simply felt insecure in her own abilities to get the story & feelings across -- it is, after all, the director's freshman film, and for that I will say it was ambitious. I can't imagine it would be easy, as well, to know you were basically going to be the first black Canadian woman to direct a movie. But uniqueness doesn't make an excellent film in & of itself.

    But for all its foibles, there are, to be sure, inspired moments in this movie -- even a few scenes where I actually laughed out loud. At the very least, I can guarantee you that, after viewing this movie, you probably won't think about pig farming quite the same way again (that is, of course, if you've ever thought about pig farming, in France or otherwise, at all in the first place).
    8JefSmith

    An original and well-thought-out film; recommended

    This is the story of a young black Canadian woman who wants to go to Africa, to connect with her heritage. She signs up for an exchange program, but before she is sent to Mali she has to go to a pig farm on Quebec, and work there for months in what she considers slavery. This well-thought-out film (the writer/director had a similar experience) addresses many dichotomies: black/white, male/female, African/Canadian, French/English, and the varying religions of the characters. There is a lot of humor, but it's a serious film with some very moving sequences. Some scenes fall flat (the actor playing her brother, in particular, varies between doing good work and bad), but overall it's a wonderful movie with an original setting.

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      Cassandra Jones makes 7 resolutions. They are:
      • Defend Africanness;
      • Never eat brown stuff from fridge ever again;
      • All animals are equal, but some are more disgusting than others - never eat pork ever again;
      • Conserve energy for the true task;
      • Work is sorrow, rest is bliss;
      • Get the hell out of this place;
      • There will be no more resolutions.

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    • Release date
      • August 5, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Production company
      • Syncopated Productions
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      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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