Sunday, March 14, 2010

Agathe Cléry

Oui! Elle est blanche et elle est raciste. C'est vrai. Elle est Agathe Cléry.

Agathe Cléry is hardworking and capable marketing manager of a cosmetic company which promotes fair skin. She is also demanding and henceforth dislike by her subordinates and colleagues. With the success in the marketing of the new product, Scandinav, to the Belgians, Agathe is promoted to marketing director.

While she is celebrating her new career development, she becomes devastated to be diagnosed of Addison Syndrome which causes her skin to darken. She always feels queasy towards coloured folks, so it is rather hard for her to accept her condition. She is unable to accept herself as a coloured person and to make matter worse, she turns completely black, loses her job and loses her man.

She learns to make peace with coloured folks when she starts to work for a black boss, in a company which doesn't hire any white person. She is happy and she is in love with her boss. But her happiness did not last too long as she starts to revert to white again.

Rating: 4 out of 5 fairy clouds. The movie has a simply plot and humour which is quite in your face. The saving grace is the whimsical musical song and dance which makes the movie more entertaining and fun.

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