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
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide démodé comme le petit roman de Sagan" (i.e., "a little film which is old-fashioned in the same way the little novel by Sagan is"). "Time Out" was very critical, calling it "fatuous" and saying "Porel gives one of the most boring, suburban, asexual performances imaginable". DVD Talk called it "dated and dull". It is based on a 1969 book by Françoise Sagan. BSCNews calls it "a superb novel", praising Sagan's "simple and poetic" style. Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide, internationally released as A Few Hours of Sunlight and "A Little Sun