Dany Laferrière: Gessica Généus, a Dazzling Filmmaker

The Emotional Shock

I had just seen, on its release day in Paris, Marie Madeleine, the new film by director Gessica Généus. I was literally paralyzed in that cinema hall at Les Halles, like a child in front of his birthday cake at the moment of blowing out the candles. The burning images of this film were still dancing under my eyelids, causing a kind of intoxication in me. This little trance which suddenly puts you in a merry mood. You want to tell your neighbor what is happening to you, only to ultimately kee