CHECKERBOARD is a really poor little French drama with a controversial subject matter exploring race relations between the two sexes. What this all boils down to is some fairly repellent material in which black women are abused by white men while the film supposedly shines a light on racial attitudes of the day. It's cheap and scuzzy, throwing in a few then-explicit moments in a bid to shock, but the end result is anything but shocking, more boring in fact.
Review of Checkerboard
