disappointed

I agree. It is an interesting and provocative subject not well delivered. The most memorable moment is when the young boy dances on the beach. Other than that, I think the casting was poor. Neither Brenda nor Legba was well cast.

BLAME THE AMERICAN DISTRIBUTORS AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS OF THE FILM WHICH KILLED THE MOVIE BY SO SEVERELY CONSTRAINING THE CONTENT OF THE FILM. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT TOTALLY FRENCH, OR AS A FRENCH-ITALIAN OR FRANCO-GERMAN PRODUCTION. ITALIANS AND GERMANS (AND THE SPANISH) ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS IN SEX TOURISM. WORKING IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY, I SAW IN THE 70S AND THE 80S IN THE CARIBBEAN (PARTICULARLY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - PÓPULAR FOR 3 WAYS WITH YOUNG MALES)& CUBA(EVERYTHING; SADLY EVEN PEDOPHILIA) AND JAMAICA, WHERE I FIRST HEARD BRUNNHILDE-LOOKING GERMAN WOMEN (AND CUTE ONES IN THEIR 20S, SPEAKING JAMAICAN CREOLE, EVEN LIVING THERE FOR A FEW YEARS). MOROCCO, THE PHILIPPINES AND THAILAND OF COURSE REMAIN THE WORLD CHAMPION TOURIST MECCAS DESPITE GOVERNMENTAL MEASURES. SO, BESIDES THE "PURITANICAL AMERICANS", POLITICS WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES CLAIMING ANTI-SEX TOURISM MEASURES WOULD MAKE IT HARD TO SET IT IN ONE COUNTRY. THE FRENCH HAVE GUADELOUPE & MARTINIQUE. WHY WOULD THEY GO TO HAITI? ACTUALLY, THE FILM TOTALLY AVOIDED THE GAY MALE PROSTITUTION IN HAITI, WHICH ARGUABLY, WAS HAITI'S "SPECIALTY." MANY AIDS-SCIENTISTS STILL SUSTAIN THE THEORY THAT HAITIAN "GUEST WORKERS" IN A COUPLE OF BLACK AFRICAN COUNTRIES WHICH IMPORTED THEM IN THE EARLY TO MID 1970S FOR AGRICULTURAL LABOR, BROUGHT AIDS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (HAITI). FROM HAITI, AIDS WAS (ACCORDING TO MANY SCIENTISTS) EXPORTED MOSTLY BY GAY MALES WHO MADE HAITI THE SEX TOURISM PARADISE OF THE 60S & 70-S. BUT AT THAT TIME, TERMS LIKE SEX TOURISM AND GAY-PROSTITUTION DIDN'T EVEN EXIST. BUT HAITI HAD MANY LARGE STUD FARMS - NOT SHOWN IN THE FILM. I'M FROM MIAMI, HOME TO THE LARGEST HAITIAN COMMUNITY OUTSIDE HAITI, AND REMEMBER WHEN THE HIV VIRUS WAS ISOLATED. GAY MEN, HAITIANS, AND INTRA-VENOUS DRUG USERS WERE THE MOST SUSPECT. AND HAITIANS IN MIAMI SUFFERED FROM THIS PREJUDICE FOR A GOOD DECADE OR SO. TRUST ME, THE 1970S HAITIAN SCENE WAS MUCH RAUNCHIER THAN THE TAME IDYLLIC SETTING OF THIS FILM'S "FANTASY" HOTEL SHOWS.WHAT STUDIO HAS THE BALLS TO SHOW THAT, EVEN IN AN "ART" OR "FOREIGN" FILM.