Cinema Rediscovered: One Hand Don't Clap

BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmCinema Rediscovered: One Hand Don't Clap

Showing: 01 October 2023

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Sun 1 Oct 2023

CertificateNot Rated
Year1991
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Kavery Dutta Kaul
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 32MINS
SeasonCinema Rediscovered on Tour

Calypso music is celebrated in all its beauty in this restored documentary taking a bright and energising look at Calypso’s importance.

Kavery Dutta Kaul’s documentary features insightful interviews from genre legends such as Calypso Rose and Lord Kitchener as they put their careers into perspective. The film gives us an insider’s look at the music’s presence and origins on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, where it emerged in the early 19th century.

Alongside this, One Hand Don’t Clap puts us straight in the lead-up to coronation of the Calypso Monarch in Trinidad in 1986, a first-hand account of its role in the community and the celebrations that surround it, featuring beautiful live performances of songs such as ‘Pan in A Minor’ and ‘Solomon’.

“Shake your Sugar Bum Bum! The return of the classic film capturing calypso’s riotous brilliance” Amelia Gentleman, The Guardiancinemarediscoveredfunders.jpg



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