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- In February 1981, struggling with drink and drug dependency and being chased by the IRS over a multi-million-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old singer-songwriter took the ferry from England to the faded fishing town Ostend in Belgium. He was expected to stay for a few weeks in the family home of the music promoter and hotel owner Freddy Cousaert. But Gaye ended up living in the down-at-heel resort for nearly 18 months, during which he penned one of his biggest hits, Sexual Healing, from his seafront rooms at the Residence Jane apartment block.
- Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), the giant of soul music has dropped anchor in Ostend, Belgium. The choice of this stopover is to say the least unexpected, even incredible. In London Marvin Gaye met the flamboyant music and boxing promoter Freddy Cousaert, who invited him to Ostend, to stay with his family, a 24-year-old Dutch girlfriend Eugenie Vis and the five-year-old son Bubby. Gaye agreed, and on February 15, 1981 he boarded the Sealink ferry to Ostend.
- Most of them come from elsewhere, they are there alive in the heart of the big city whose streets in certain neighborhoods are at times black with blacks. The music danced, played, sung is their striking force here, the language that binds them and brings us closer to them. Before the minuet there was the tam-tam, after the minuet there is always the tam-tam. By means of ancestral instruments they take us back to our origins and testify to their authenticity which must be safeguarded at all costs. Our wandering in the former Paris-la-blanche will lead us to meet the Ballet Kodia, music and dances Central Africa ; Gérald Wilson, American choreographer and amazing dance teacher; Nel Oliver, originally from Benin, printer turned showman; Cheik Tidiame, Senegalese without work and without a residence permit and who can no longer take it, as he says, "to live in shit"; Cathy, a superb West Indian, model at Paco Rabanne, who takes both language lessons at university and singing lessons; Ramiro, refugee from Guinea Bissau and street singer; Nancy Holloway, ex-star of the song of the 60s and who testifies to a recent past. The Black Sugar where every Sunday takes place a musical party, allows them to break the isolation and to discover themselves to others and to themselves.
- Giving voice to the women of the night for whom striptease is a mean of expression and earning a living. What is their life? What hides this passion? Strip school is a cultural and social testimony which will interest all those who pay attention to the phenomena of this world. From Nova, a fairground barrack stripper, to Delly Hollyday, a Fellinian from Guadeloupe, via Mimi, Lolo and Martine, strippers between Pigalle and Blanche, to end up at the Taj Mahal du nu that is the crazy horse saloon in Paris where company of Polly Underground and Bernardin we will approach - once is not custom - the truth which in front of us undresses quite naked.
- "The Rebellious Song" is a film that is both violent and poetic. Violent in its purpose which is to denounce injustice, misery, war, in short, bad living. Poetic in its images - even the most brutal - put at the service of performers-composers and texts. Here neither speeches nor comments underline or interrupt the subject of the song. The things said in "The Rebellious Song" are of paramount importance and this prophetic verse by Paul Eluard sums it up admirably: "If the echo of their voice weakens, we will perish". At the antipodes of fashions of the day and marketable hits, the songs that make up "The Rebellious Song" are eternal and imperishable; they concern each one of us. "Is this how men live" could be the theme of "The rebel song" which, through the texts of Jean-Roger Caussimon, Serge-Utgé Royo, Claude Semal, Gérard Berliner, Renaud, Jacques Prévert, Aragon- Ferré, Jacques Brel, Jacques Lefebvre, Christiane Stefanski, tell us about ourselves and denounce our demons. Finally, this song is rebellious because in rebellion against any form of power which arrogates itself by force of money, weapons, racial and social prejudices, religiosity, abuse of power, the right to deceive people. This is why this film is dedicated to all the executioners of bodies, hearts and souls.
- Ethnographic document, testimony to the mental and psychopathic state of some of the subjects of His Majesty Baudouin I, King of the Belgians, at the dawn of the final years of the final decade of this century. A patchwork of people and scenery, a scanner of living characters in Belgium, where the enormous rubs shoulders with the derisory, where the unheard-of mixes with the pathetic, and where, of course, the realities surpass the fictions that are inspired by them.
- "There are two tragedies in life; one is not satisfying one's desire and the other is satisfying it" - Oscar Wilde. After various meetings, we filmed the confessions of people practicing sadomasochism, this singular and complex form of human sexuality. This film attempts to identify the reasons that lead some to feel the urgent need to confront the painful game of domination and submission. The relevant analysis of Serge André, renowned psychoanalyst, enlightens us in a masterful way on the behavioral deviations that the exercise of Power can cause in certain major decision-makers in our society.