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Suzanne, Suzanne (1982)

Directed by James Hatch, Camille Billops

Documentary | Short

Overview

This poignant documentary profiles a young black woman’s struggle to confront the legacy of a physically abusive father and her headlong flight into drug abuse. Suzanne, after years of physical and psychological abuse, is compelled to understand her father’s violence and her mother’s passive complicity, who suffered at her husband’s hands as well, as the keys to her own self-destruction. After years of silence, Suzanne and her mother are finally able to share their painful experiences with each other in an intensely moving moment of truth.

Length 26 minutes

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Viewing Notes

Criterion Channel is offering a few selected works by Black filmmakers due to our current crisis and to promote #BlackLivesMatter so I decided to watch a couple of titles including this one.

An intimate portrait of this woman and her family over three generations of women discussing the domestic abuse of the Suzanne’s father.

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