"Fanon" by Jean-Claude Barny: a biopic shrink near the goal

This vibrant portrait of Frantz Fanon tells both the man, the thinker and the psychiatrist. A successful film that took ten years to exist.

The first fictional film devoted to the decolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon forgot in the codes of the genre.

While a biopic partially shot in Tunisia comes out in France on the psychiatrist and anti-racist and decolonial activist, his centenary is an opportunity in the Maghreb countries to rediscover a man long too unknown.

A bit hieratic but exciting, Jean-Claude Barny's film in the theater this Wednesday, April 2nd focuses on the Algerian period of Frantz Fanon, French doctor-psychiatrist of Martinique origin and figure...

Jean-Claude Barny does justice to the figure of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon.

1953. Frantz Fanon (Alexandre Bouyer), a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of other doctors in a context of colonization...