Belle

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En Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, Dido Belle est une enfant métisse, fille illégitime d'un capitaine de la Royal Navy et d'une esclave. Pour éviter le scandale, elle est confiée à lord Mansfield et à sa femme, qui s'occupent de son éducation. Belle devient l'amie inséparable d'Elizabeth, une nièce des Mansfield. Même si elle jouit de certains privilèges, sa couleur de peau est un obstacle qui l'empêche de participer à la vie de la bonne société. Plus tard, la jeune fille s'éprend de John Davinier, un jeune avocat idéaliste. Ensemble, ils vont amener lord Mansfield, le président de la Haute Cour d'Angleterre, à mettre fin à l'esclavage dans son pays...

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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada

00:30What is right can never be impossible

00:33What has she been named?

00:35Dido Belle Lindsay

00:37She takes your name

00:38I am not ashamed

00:39We will call her Dido

00:41Elizabeth was in much need of a companion

00:46And that is what we shall say when questions are asked

00:48We shall be receiving visitors for dinner

00:53Why are you not dying with your family ever?

00:55Because that is not correct

00:57May I present the second of my two nieces

00:59Miss Dido Lindsay

01:00I find her repulsive

01:02Papa, how may I be too high in rank to dine with the servants

01:06And too low to dine with my family?

01:08Though I understand she is kept under interesting rules

01:12She raises questions

01:13Would you do me the honour of taking some air with me?

01:16Don't you care what people will say?

01:18What should anyone say?

01:20I've no idea she'll be so black

01:22One does not make a wife of the rare and exotic

01:25Does she still have a tongue?

01:27I have a tongue

01:28Though yours explains well enough why I may not marry your son

01:31My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family

01:34Who would carry me as their shame

01:36I've enabled every rule of convention

01:41So that you would know exactly where you belong

01:43I don't know that I find myself anywhere

01:45Do you love her?

01:47As though she were created of you and me

01:50What of your mother?

01:51I know very little of her other than the colour she has given me

01:54Then at least you know she was beautiful

01:56You would risk your position for a man without name

01:59Laws that allow us to diminish the humanity of anybody are not laws

02:07He speaks a voice for people who do not have one

02:10If I had your choice, I would choose the man I loved

02:13There are rules in place which dictate how we live

02:16You break every rule when it matters enough, Papa

02:18I am the evidence

02:21I am the evidence

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