Good Hair a germé dans l’esprit de l’acteur américain Chris Rock quand sa fille Lola, lui a demandé « papa, comment puis je faire pour avoir de beaux cheveux ? » De beaux cheveux, que signifie avoir de beaux cheveux pour sa petite fille? des cheveux lisses comme les stars à la télé!
Chris Rock dans un salon de coiffure assiste au défrisage d’une petite fille
A la manière de Michael Moore, Chris Rock sous la direction de Jeff Stilson explore les salons de coiffure afro-américains, les instituts, les laboratoires pour traiter de la question du défrisage, et dans les temples hindous pour les secrets de fabrication des extensions, postiches…
Plein d’humour, hilarant, Good hair n’en est pas moins un documentaire pertinent, instructif et ludique sur les risques encourus par les femmes qui utilisent ses produits chimiques.
Au sein de la communauté noire, Chris Rock s’interroge sur la raison pour laquelle des hommes et femmes ressentent le besoin de « transformer » leur chevelure chimiquement. Tout au long du documentaire, on s’aperçoit que les critères de beauté sont très formatés et totalement inspirés des diktats des tabloïds.
Good Hair rassemble des interviews de stars noires américaines qui « osent » évoquer ouvertement cette habitude capillaire: Nia long, Ice T, Raven Lydia Baxter, Maya Angelou, Kerry Washington, Salt n Pepa, Eve, le Révérend Al Sharpton…
Le film Good hair n’a pour le moment pas trouvé de distributeur en France, nous espérons que cela ne serait tarder car le public répondra présent. Il sort au états-unis le 23 Octobre 09.
N’hésitez pas à visionner la bande annonce :
A savourer entre filles ou mère -fille!
Good hair – présenté au festival de SUNDANCE 2009
site: goodhairmovie.net
Please take a moment to check out my documentary film BLACK HAIR
It is free at youtube. 6 parts including an update from London, England.
It explores the Korean Take-over of the Black Beauty Supply and Hair biz..
The current situation makes it hard to believe that Madame C.J. Walker once ran the whole thing.
I am not a hater, I am a motivator.
Plus I am a White guy who stumbled upon this, and felt it was so wrong I had to make a film about it.
self-funded film, made from the heart.
Can it be taken back?
Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96aaTSdrAE
Il a l’air super, merci pour l’info
J’adore cet acteur .. il m’éclate , j’espère que je pourai le voir en france
je l’espère également§
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As a black woman, I think the documentary missed an important point: why do black people in the Americas talk about good hair vs bad hair? How were they ingrained with this theory? How brainwashed and ignorant mothers (filled with self-hatred sometimes)have been passing it along to such extent that their daughters just happen to hate their hair? Yes, black hair is very hard to manage especially in cold climates like the north hemisphere; its texture is not made for humid environments. Ask any dermatologist, he/she’ll tell you. Yes, women like versatility when it comes to their looks and black hair do have this ability to be transformed in any style. Well, this flexibility balances the kinkiness and the nappiness people seem to hate or endure. The documentary focuses on the contemporary economic aspect of a real issue within the black community. Why do white men tend more to see a black woman with short natural hair as beautiful when black men and women who would rather think that she isn’t coquettish ? There’s a historic and social venue here which is worth exploring that was totally missed or slightly skimmed over in the movie. Chris Rock doesn’t even answer to his daughter question which sets the whole idea of the documentary: « Daddy, why come don’t have good hair? » It’s not about having what’s inside the head more important than what’s above. It’s about any black woman who is sporting her hair natural, braided, weaved, relaxed, in locks, doing it from the bottom of her heart because she wants to and not because somebody told her that she had bad hair.
im black i relaxed my hair because it was too tough and nappy! i advise when relaxing hair make sure you look after it and make sure you have a good hairdresser if not the concequences are awful!! lol
i can’t wait to see the film!!!!!