Martine Delumeau

Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

For a long time I watched Guadeloupe, my parents' native island, from afar. From the metropolis. A rapprochement took place when I was watching the images filmed by the Guadeloupeans throughout the general strike of 2009. 44 days of a singular and powerful mobilization that this film restores as I perceived it.

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