The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

Name: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: June 6, 2025
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 75

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: June 6, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: An actress and new mother (played by 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, troublingAn actress and new mother (played by 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 min

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Jessica Kiang

May 28, 2025

“Ballad” is assembled with such peculiar, calm exactness that it actually resembles a series of experiments in simplicity. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

May 28, 2025

Overall, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire shows us how this discourse falls away––or most essential points are refined––when elaborated upon by such voluptuous cinematic form. Read full review

William Repass

Jun 1, 2025

This film essay grapples with the ethical and political considerations raised in the effort to retrieve Césaire from oblivion. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 15, 2025

A calm and interesting introduction to an important dissident author. Read full review

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