"Frantz Fanon": the years that the psychiatrist and anti-colonialist figure spent at the Blida hospital

Drama Review by Abdenour Zahzah, with Alexandre Desane, Nicolas Dromard (Algeria, 1h31). In theaters July 23 ★★☆☆☆

Published on July 22, 2025 at 6:32 p.m.

“Frantz Fanon”, with Alexandre Desane. — "Frantz Fanon," with Alexandre Desane. COPYRIGHT SHELLAC FILMS

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Four months after Jean-Claude Barny's film, this other, very similar fiction (but in black and white and with an added hint of staging) resurrects Fanon, psychiatrist and anti-colonialist figure, against the backdrop of the Algerian War. Redundant but far from useless.