"The fragment is a really important structure for telling stories that have been heavily impacted by colonialism... For many marginalised folks, this is impossible due to trauma or lost history."
"During the Second World War, the Caribbean-born, Paris-educated intellectual Suzanne Césaire co-founded the literary journal Tropiques in Vichy-governed Martinique... but she ceased writing after 1945... and faded into comparative obscurity as Aimé ascended into the canon of postcolonial poetry and politics."
"With The Ballad, Hunt-Ehrlich attempts to rediscover and restore Suzanne Césaire's legacy... a mix of historical fiction, meta-movie and essay film, her first feature film skips lightly between layers of reality and representation."
"It’s clear from context that within the film-within-the-film, Zita Hanrot is Suzanne Césaire, as she studies her role... reflecting on Césaire's duality as performer and historical figure."
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