Soleil O of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves. The film played during the International Critics' Week at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim. It received a Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno International Film Festival. In his "Family Guide to Movies on Video", Henry Herx wrote that the film's "use of ironic humor and lively music keeps the plight of the black emigrant worker from becoming totally depressing." Soleil O Soleil O (Oh, Sun) is a 1967 French-Mauritanian drama film directed by Med Hondo. The film "Soleil
Soleil et chair Soleil et chair Soleil et chair ("Sun and Flesh" in English) is a poem written by Arthur Rimbaud in May 1870. The work, while being unmistakably Rimbaud, nevertheless exhibits the influence that both Romanticism and Latin writers such as Horace, Virgil, and Lucretius had on his early style. It takes the tone of a hymn to the sun and earth—with overt sexual overtones—which periodically lapses into a lament of the abyss that now separates Man from Nature. Throughout, double entendres figure widely, often providing the sexual innuendos. The poem, which consists of four sections, is written in Alexandrines, or 12-syllable