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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

2024 1h 14m Biography Drama List
Tomatometer 7 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.

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Jessica Kiang Variety A woozily metatextual essay that lives inside the mystery of Césaire’s tiny but influential corpus of work, rather than trying to solve it. Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff 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. Rated: B Oct 14, 2024 Full Review David Katz The Film Stage The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,” so to speak. Rated: B Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Elissa Suh Moviepudding a formally and politically radical inquiry Oct 6, 2024 Full Review Giovanni Lago Next Best Picture Alex Ashe's cinematography is sumptuous and gorgeously shot on 16mm film. She warmly captures the intoxicating environment in which actors spend their days filming the project and conversing about the constitutions of their characters. Rated: 8/10 Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Stephen Saito Moveable Fest A wildly original portrait of the Martinique author/activist vividly explores how an important figure can be lost to history. Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.
Director
Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich
Producer
Sophie Luo, Mike S. Ryan
Screenwriter
Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich
Genre
Biography, Drama
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 14m