Noire n'est pas mon métier

3.5 Directors as gatekeepers including Celine Sciamma think claiming colourblindness is progressive. France is a country where the national sense of humour is one of punching down, and the official line is that naming race is racist, which conveniently denies the reality of inequitable experience and keeps the dynamics of racist public policy unexamined and unchallenged. The voices in Noire n'est pas mon métier are a start, vital in a country that shuts down public discourse on racism.