Review of The Man Who Came from Elsewhere

This production is publicized as a tale about racism and prejudice! But those people have surely not watched it or are not intelligent enough to understand what they saw! From my point of view, I saw a upper class black doctor opening his office in a rural area at the end of the XIX century. Thus like all new doctors past, present and future, he must earn his patients with his medical skills and human qualities and the slow pace of becoming a member of a community has nothing to do with racism! This subject is however raised quickly and at the end of the movie when indeed Africans are displayed in a show like animals circus! On the other hand, the way this small society is organized between the wealthy, idle people and the poor, laboring ones is indeed a sharp criticism of this new age of capitalism! Nevertheless, this black bottled-up doctor is too much arrogant, not cool enough to leave a good feeling! In addition, like all french productions, I'm fed up with this idyllic pastoral life and politically correct story. At last, Barbara is totally wasted here, squeezed in her period robe and her naive lines. In conclusion, a poor TV movie about poor