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Black Venus (also know as Vénus noire) full movie is released on Oct 27, 2010. Watch Black Venus online - the French Drama movie from France , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $1,514,245. Black Venus is directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and created by Abdellatif Kechiche with Yahima Torres and Andre Jacobs. Black Venus is available online on Tubi TV and Kanopy.
The story of Saartjes Baartman, a Black domestic who, in 1808, left Southern Africa, then ruled by Dutch settlers, for Europe, following her boss Hendrick Caesar , hoping to find fame and fortune there. Once in London her master turned manager does nothing but exhibit her as a freak in a phony and humiliating carnival show. After a series of troubles caused by their act, Caesar, Saartje and their new friend, bear-tamer Réaux, head for Paris where once again, and against her will, she has to mimic savagery and expose her body, first in carnivals, then in the aristocratic salons of Paris, later on among the libertines and finally in brothels where she ends up being a prostitute. In the meantime, French anatomists will have taken an interest in her unusual anatomy (enormous buttocks and labia) only to declare her the missing link from ape to man. In 1815, aged only 27, she dies alone, of a combination of pneumonia and venereal disease.