Madame Nerval es una célebre mambo, sacerdotisa vudú en Haití. La película nos brinda aquí un colorido retrato y una incursión al país de los espíritus, que ilustran la vida cotidiana de un pueblo para el que la dimensión imaginaria del vudú es una escapatoria a la miseria.

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Madame Nerval is a famous mambo, a voodoo priestess in Haiti. The film provides a colourful portrait of and an incursion into the world of spirits integral to the daily life of a people for whom voodoo offers an escape from poverty.
"The invisible is a mystery," the astonishing Haitian Vodou priestess tells us at the start of the film. What follows are the implications, expressed with more than a hint of humor, which reveals the essential, fantastic, and concrete link with Africa in this pragmatic and familiar religion.

Charles Najman, 1999. 55 min.
In French with English subtitles.

FESTIVALS

2009 | World Nomads Haiti | NEW YORK, USA | May 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2009 | French Institute Alliance Française, 22 East 60th Street, NYC | www.fiaf.org/events/spring2009/2009-05-world-nomads.shtml
* Selection "Maysles Institute Haitian Documentary Series"