The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmThe Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

Showing: 26 July 2025 , 28 July 2025 , 30 July 2025

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Sat 26 Jul 2025
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Wed 30 Jul 2025

CertificateNot Rated
Year2024
GenreDrama
Director(s)Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich
Writer(s)Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Marina Magloire
LanguageFrench, English
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 15MINS
Season Main Programme

Shot on 16mm, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich presents an intoxicating feature debut imagining the life of Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.

A pioneer of Afro-Caribbean surrealism, a prominent feminist and anti-colonialist and co-founder of influential Martinique cultural journal Tropiques, Césaire’s impressive intellectual achievements have long been overshadowed by those of her husband, poet and political leader Aime Césaire. Guided by Suzanne’s writing and testimony from her family, Hunt-Ehrlich’s film seeks to redress this balance, honouring lost memories and imagining the unknowable in its quest to “make a film about an artist who didn’t want to be remembered”.

A delicately layered and beautifully realised metafictional essay, shimmering and allusive, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire reclaims its elusive subject and makes her radical voice feel startlingly present.

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"An intoxicating reverie...gorgeously allusive." - Jessica Kiang, Variety



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