Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

At the age of 27, South African photographer Ernest Cole landed in New York. It was not so much a vacation as it was a full-fledged exile after having publishing the book House of Bondage, which offered the first portraits of Apartheid violence. His arrival in the United States coincided with a high point in both police brutality and the response of the African-American population, which Cole immortalized with his visionary perspective. This vibrant documentary by Haitian Raoul Peck (director of essential films such as L'Homme sur les quais and I Am Not Your Negro), traces his personal and professional life with magnetic energy, transporting us to a time of intolerable inequalities that are, sadly, still far from disappearing today. (JHE)