Let Each One Go Where He May

The shadow of Jaguar doubtless hovers over Let Each One Go Where He May, which portrays the black communities that have become established under forest cover in Suriname. The principle is the same: the human reality of a country is revealed through the life course of two brothers. From the youngsters’ awakening to their arrival in the city (and their vanishing into the urban crowds), we do not move around in the real world, but within categories of human geography (nature, rural area, city, pollution) that structure and codify our perception of reality—and thus in the would-be spontaneity of the Rouchian shot. The image too is a prison. Can one escape from it? (Yann Lardeau)