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No Fear, No Die (French: S'en fout la mort) is a 1990 drama film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis in collaboration with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It features Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas and Solveig Dommartin.
Sep 5, 1990 · No Fear, No Die: Directed by Claire Denis. With Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin, Christopher Buchholz. Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
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- Drama
- Claire Denis
- 1990-09-05
Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas star in the under-seen second feature by celebrated director Claire Denis, an unflinching portrait of two Black immigrant men from Benin and French Antilles, scraping out a living through illegal cockfights in a restaurant basement on the outskirts of Paris.
No Fear, No Die. “Men, cocks … same thing,” laments one of the protagonists in Claire Denis’s infrequently screened 1990 film No Fear, No Die, as he observes the chickens he trains for a grimy, low-stakes cockfighting outfit in the industrial working-class outskirts of Paris.
NO FEAR NO DIE. S'EN FOUT LA MORT. 1990, Claire Denis, France/West Germany, 90 mins. In French with English subtitles | Format: 4K Digital Restoration. Opens July 19 | Two Caribbean immigrants, Jocelyn and Dah, work in the outskirts of Paris in the seedy underworld of cockfighting.
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Drawing inspiration from the writings of Frantz Fanon, the ruggedly unsentimental and psychologically evocative No Fear No Die is a forceful examination of the lives of immigrants in France and of the psychic toll of the violence imposed by colonizers upon the colonized.
