Photo of Melvin Van Peebles
Photo of Melvin Van Peebles

Melvin Van Peebles

“I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.”

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    WATERMELON MAN

    MELVIN VAN PEEBLES United States, 1970

    Inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Melvin Van Peebles’s only studio vehicle critiques Hollywood’s facile representations of race with hilarity and subversiveness. By dismantling the lily-white aesthetics of the family sitcom, Watermelon Man exposes the hypocrisies of American liberalism.

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