Aimé Césaire's ghost whispers through Martinique in 43 hypnotic minutes.
Shot in Martinique, with the evocation of several texts, namely by Aimé Césaire.
Cinematography
Martinique's landscape becomes a character itself.
Writing
Césaire's poetry transformed into visual language.
Direction
Guimarães bridges personal and political effortlessly.
Director
Regina Guimarães
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Césaire's 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' (1939) invented the term 'négritude,' revolutionizing Black identity discourse worldwide.
The title's 'panne des sens' (breakdown of senses) inverts Césaire's ecstatic overload—Guimarães suggests postcolonial exhaustion requires different tools.
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