Black Venus Movie is a 2010 French drama. It is based on the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman. In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.
Sarah Baartman died on 29 December 1815, but her exhibition continued. Her brain, skeleton and sexual organs remained on display in a Paris museum until 1974. Her remains weren't repatriated and buried until 2002.
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Equal Opportunity Award.
South Africa with her master, Caezar, to expose her caged body to the audiences of London's freak shows. Free and enslaved all at the same time, the "Hottentot Venus" became an icon in the slums, destined to be sacrificed in the pursuit of a shimmering vision of prosperity.
She was the first black women known to be subjected to human sexual trafficking.
To learn more about Sarah Baartman visit: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987
Black Venus holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
You can watch Black Venus on TUBI.
The movie Black Venus is:
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Produced by Charles Gillibert
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