How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
{{Infobox film
| name = How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer}}
| image = How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired.jpg
| caption =
| director = {{Interlanguage link multi|Jacques W. Benoit|fr}}
| producer = Richard Sadler
Ann Burke
Henry Lange
| writer = Dany Laferrière
| starring = Isaach De Bankolé
Maka Kotto
Roberta Weiss
| music = Manu Dibango
| cinematography = John Berry
| editing = Dominique Roy
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1989}}
| runtime = 98 mins.
| country = Canada
| language = French
| budget = $3 million
| gross =
}}
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired ({{langx|fr|Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer}}) is a 1989 French-language Canadian drama film directed by {{Interlanguage link multi|Jacques W. Benoit|fr}}, starring Isaach de Bankolé and Maka Kotto, and written by Haitian author Dany Laferrière based on his novel of the same name.{{cite web|title=How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (1989) Review/Film; Myths of Race and Sex In a Breezy Examination|authorlink=Janet Maslin|author=Maslin, Janet|date=June 8, 1990|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE5D7103FF93BA35755C0A966958260|work=The New York Times}} The film was released in the US on 8 June 1990.{{Cite web|title = IMDB – Blog|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097098/ |website=IMDB.com |access-date =April 3, 2018}}
The New York Times, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun and The Boston Globe all refused to publish advertisements for the film, while The Washington Post did.{{cite news|title=New York Times refuses movie ad|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 1, 1990 |agency=Canadian Press |location=Toronto, Ontario|page=D17}} The film was controversial upon its initial release because of its title and was boycotted by the NAACP.{{cite web|title=How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired|authorlink=Roger Ebert|author=Ebert, Roger|date=July 20, 1990|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19900720/REVIEWS/7200301/1023|work=Chicago Sun-Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/howtomakelovetoanegrowithoutgettingtirednrhowe_a0b28a.htm|title=How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired|authorlink=Desson Thomson|first=Desson|last=Howe|date=July 6, 1990|newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/howtomakelovetoanegrowithoutgettingtirednrkempley_a0a01f.htm|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired|first=Rita|last=Kempley|date=July 6, 1990}}
Plot
In Montreal, two African men, Man (de Bankolé) and Bouba (Kotto), share an apartment. Man is a student and aspiring author while Bouba is an amateur philosopher. The film is a slice of life story about Man and Bouba's sexploits. Man (de Bankolé) spends most of his time flirting with women around the city with the philosophy that if he talks to as many girls as possible his chances of having sexual relations with them will be higher. In the movie, many of them do, and he gives them nicknames: "Miz Literature," "Miz Mystic," "Miz Redhead," and so on.{{Cite web|title = How To Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired | website=RogerEbert.com |url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/how-to-make-love-to-a-negro-without-getting-tired-1990|access-date = April 3, 2018}} The story proceeds to document these short lived sexual relations with details on biracial sexual relations and stereotypes.
Production
The film cost $3 million.{{sfn|Pallister1995|p=10}}
Reception
The film was seen by 128,006 people in France.{{sfn|Marshall|2001|p=85}}
Awards
The film was nominated for two Genie Awards in the year 1990. The nominations were, Best screenplay adapted written by Dany Laferrière and Richard Sadler. The other nomination was for best original song, written by Claude Dubois and Dany Laferrière. The film did not win the awards.{{Cite web|title = Awards: – Blog – IMDB| website=IMDb |url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097098/awards?ref_=tt_awd|access-date =April 3, 2018}}
References
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Works cited
- {{cite book|last=Marshall |first=Bill |title=Quebec National Cinema |publisher=McGill–Queen's University Press |date=2001 |url=https://archive.org/details/quebecnationalci00mars |isbn=0-7735-2103-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Pallister |first=Janis |title=The Cinema of Quebec: Masters in Their Own House |publisher=Associated University Presses |date=1995 |isbn=0838635628}}
External reviews
- {{IMDb title|0097098}}
{{Portal|Human sexuality}}
Category:1980s French-language films
Category:Films set in Montreal
Category:Films based on Canadian novels
Category:Race-related controversies in film