The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Synopsis
The film stars César-award-winner Zita Hanrot who plays an actress haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire while three months postpartum. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction, this visually unique film brings to life the missing pieces of the writer’s legacy.
Suzanne Césaire was a writer from French Martinique, who was at the forefront of the Négritude and Surrealist movements in the Caribbean during the first half of the 20th century. However, despite her influential contributions, she published for only four years and then never again and much of her work was overshadowed by her husband Aime Césaire’s five decades in French politics. Despite Hunt-Ehrlich’s extensive five year research, the mystery surrounding Suzanne Césaire’s life and legacy remains; this is a film that leaves room for the unknown.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Technical Details
Running Time: 75 minutes
Language: French, English
Certificate: PG
Release
Date: 18th July 2025
- Rights holder / distributor: T A P E Collective
- Booking / contact details: [email protected]