"A wildly original portrait of the Martinique author/activist vividly explores how an important figure can be lost to history."—Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
"Perhaps, when history sleeps on those who shaped it, this is what it dreams."—Jessica Kiang, Variety
“Hunt Ehrlich captures the essence of the writer’s work on stylistic and thematic means, with every set piece flaming up with a tangible distance and emotion."—Hector A. Gonzalez, The Movie Buff
An actress and new mother (Zita Hanrot) is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, troubling the “paradise” of historical memory. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction– a night at a 1940s cafe, and the garden where a film’s cast and crew discuss and bring to life the missing pieces of the writer’s legacy– this is a film that leaves room for the unknown.
This is our Programmer Pick for the month of July! Click here to read Programming Director Ben Delgado's Letterboxd write-up.
