Liberté, égalité, fraternité et puis après (Freedom, Equality, Fraternity--And Then What?) (1990)

Directed by Jean Rouch

This later work from Rouch’s oeuvre takes up themes of historical memory and cross-cultural understanding with surprising results.  On the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, a group of Haitians in Paris undertake a voodoo ritual in front of Les Invalides, to reconcile the spirits of Napoleon Bonaparte and Toussaint L’Overture, the Haitian revolutionary who died as a prisoner of the French Emperor. 

16mm, color, 95 min.