How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired | |
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French | Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer |
Directed by | Jacques W. Benoit |
Written by | Dany Laferrière |
Produced by | Richard Sadler Ann Burke Henry Lange |
Starring | Isaach De Bankolé Maka Kotto Roberta Weiss |
Cinematography | John Berry |
Edited by | Dominique Roy |
Music by | Manu Dibango |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 mins. |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Budget | $3 million |
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (French: Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) is a 1989 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Jacques W. Benoit , starring Isaach de Bankolé and Maka Kotto, and written by Haitian author Dany Laferrière based on his novel of the same name.[1] The film was released in the US on 8 June 1990.[2] The New York Times, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun and The Boston Globe all refused to publish advertisements for the film, while The Washington Post did.[3] The film was controversial upon its initial release because of its title and was boycotted by the NAACP.[4][5][6]