René Depestre : On ne rate pas une vie éternelle

Eminent fils du 20ème siècle, poète aussi fougueux dans ses adhésions que dans ses ruptures, il s’est lié aux personnalités politiques et littéraires les plus saillantes de ce siècle. Ce film nous le montre en compagnie de ses compatriotes d’Haïti ainsi que de Pablo Neruda, Jorge Amado, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Edouard Glissant tout comme de Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse Toung, Fidel Castro et Che Guevara alors qu’il nous raconte ses combats politiques et littéraires et célèbre l’amour, le sexe, le corps féminin et ses safaris érotiques. Nous découvrons à 90 ans un insoumis en quête d’éternité au sommet de son art poétique avec les fulgurances du grand écrivain qui rêve d’habiter » la grande maison des humanités ». " René Depestre. We cannot miss an eternal life. 2016/DVD/120 minutes s in French and Haitian Creole, subtitled in English and SpanishEminent son of the 20th century, a poet as feisty in his beliefs as in his dissents, René Depestre was close to the most prominent political and literary personalities of this century. This film shows him in the company of his Haitian countrymen as well as with Pablo Neruda, Jorge Amado, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Edouard Glissant and Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, as he tells us about his political and literary struggles, celebrates love, sex, the female body and his erotic safaris. We discover a 90 year-old rebel searching for eternity, at the top of his poetic art, with the brilliance of a great writer who dreams of living in "the great house of the humanities." @arnoldantoninhaitifilms2554 ©2016 by Arnold Antonin . All rights reserved. No part of this video may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright holder.