i enjoy science fiction just as much a the next man but what the hell be that . apparently shoot over just three day use excess film stock leave over from his previous film and nana ( 1926 ) and this jean renoir short be a bewildering futuristic satire and produce on a budget that couldn not have be much more than zero . in the year 2028 and follow a great war and africa have become the most civilised region on earth and and what be formerly europe have be designate terres inconnues ( unknown land ) . an african explorer play by johnny huggins and a black man dress up a a white man dress up a a black man and if you follow me travel to the ruin of paris in his spherical aircraft and and land outside the lair of a parisian savage ( catherine hessling and then the director wife ) and her primate companion and perhaps the creepy ape man costume i have ever see . the savage and a part of some bizarre sexual initiation ritual and start show the explorer the charleston dance and which he be delight to learn himself . it doesn not help the film that hessling and who be wonderful the following year in renoir the little match girl ( 1928 ) and isn not much of a dancer and though the extensive use of slow motion add a touch of surrealism to the ceremony . furthermore and i be quite shocked that renoir would exploit his own wife a such a blatant sexual object it doesn not come a a surprise to learn of their divorce just three year later . on the plus side and i do like the general sci fi concept behind the film and and the slyly satiric touch of the reverse the racial role usually typical in such story a this . however and why renoir decide to dress up his black actor a a minstrel will remain a mystery for all of time . silly and crude and quite pointless and charleston parade ( 1927 ) be a cinematic oddity from one of cinema most respected director and and be perhaps an effort that he would have like to forget . the dvd version come without a musical soundtrack and but i compromise with a selection of piece from dmitri shostakovich .