Eat, for This Is My Body (2007): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2007, Eat, for This Is My Body is a drama film directed by Michelange Quay, running about 105 minutes.

What it’s about. Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.

Who’s in it. Eat, for This Is My Body stars Sylvie Testud as Madame, Catherine Samie as La mère de Madame, Hans Dacosta Saint-Val as Patrick and Jean Noël Pierre as L'albinos.

How it landed. With an audience score of 4.2/10, Eat, for This Is My Body has proved divisive with audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Eat, for This Is My Body page.

If you liked it. Fans of Eat, for This Is My Body tend to enjoy The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Schindler's List and The Godfather Part II.