6.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Black for Remembrance (1995)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.0
Overview
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Trans: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Overview
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central subject matter, a psychological thriller focused on individual paranoia, marital conflict, and murder, is inherently apolitical. It explores personal drama and suspense without promoting specific ideological solutions or addressing broader societal issues.
Based on the limited information provided, the movie 'Black for Remembrance' does not present explicit DEI characteristics in its casting or narrative framing. Without specific details on character representation or thematic content, a neutral assessment is applied.
Secondary
The film "Black for Remembrance" features Isabelle, a transsexual woman, whose identity drives the central plot. Her trans identity is depicted as a source of significant societal prejudice, family rejection, and entanglement with a criminal underworld, leading to a narrative primarily focused on conflict, danger, and negative outcomes.
The film portrays a Catholic priest as a central figure in a dark secret and the community's complicity, highlighting hypocrisy and moral failings within a religious institution. The narrative offers no significant counterbalancing positive portrayal, instead using the religious setting to expose corruption and hidden sins.
No information regarding LGBTQ+ characters or themes in 'Black for Remembrance' was provided. Consequently, an evaluation of its portrayal is not possible, leading to an N/A categorization.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Black for Remembrance is an original film, not an adaptation or a biopic. All characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there is no prior source material or historical record to establish a canonical gender for any character before their portrayal in the film.
There is no widely established prior canon or historical record for the characters in "Black for Remembrance" (1995) that would indicate a change in their race for this film. The characters appear to be original to this cinematic work.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.1
5.9
Critic Ratings
N/A
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