BLACK AND WHITE / DVD COLMAX

I love Anil Kapoor in this film.

Somewhat familiar, but often very funny anti-war, anti-imperialist satire/farce.A motley bunch of French, holding down a colonial fort in Africa, discover that WWI has been declared, so go and attack their German neighbors, using their native semi-servants as soldiers, with disastrous results.Few films manage to wrestle so well, with so many issues - racism, nationalism, religious hypocrisy, etc. If it kept to it's most original moments, and didn't fall over the edge occasionally into the silly or obviously preachy at times it would be a great film. As it is, it's still well worth seeing.