Closing Night Film, Caribbean Filmfest at AFI. Reception After. Must Buy Ticket

Looks like an excellent film with a cool reception after.

From Variety: "An Intoxicating Reverie Reclaims an Elusive Legacy. Artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's feature debut is a shimmering sidelong glance at the intellectual, philosophical and emotional imprint left by Martinican anti-colonialist writer and Afro-surrealist pioneer Suzanne Césaire."

Special Features: Closing Night | Post-screening reception hosted by renowned Embassy of France Chef Daniel Labonne, a native of the French Caribbean island of Martinique

Purchase the ticket here. $13

An actress and new mother (played by Zita Hanrot) is haunted by voices as she begins to inhabit the role of surrealist Martiniquais 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 Roussi-Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, challenging 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. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s first feature stars César-award-winning actress Zita Hanrot and actor Motell Foster, and features a soundtrack by singer Sabine McCalla. (Note courtesy of Cinema Guild.) DIR/SCR Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich; SCR Marina Magloire, from the essay “Surrealist Refugees in the Tropics” by Terese Svoboda; PROD Sophie Luo, Mike S. Ryan. U.S., 2024, color, 75 min. In English and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 75 Minutes
Genre: Drama
Opening Date: Thursday, June 12, 2025