Estelle-Sarah Bulle was born in 1974 in Créteil, from a Guadeloupean father and a mother who grew up on the Franco-Belgian border. She is the author of a first novel,Where the dogs bark by the tail(Liana Levi, 2018), a great success crowned by several literary prizes, and a children’s novel, “Issa’s Ghosts(The School of Recreation, 2020). “The Most Shooting Stars“has just been published by Levi editions. (Replay)
“In June 1958, a French film crew landed in Rio de Janeiro. In the poor neighborhoods the news spread of a strange casting: young black amateur actors were being sought. In his rewriting of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Aurèle Marquant intends to set a favela vibrant with tragedy and joy. The director recognized his Eurydice as Gipsy Dusk, a mixed-race American dancer he met in Paris. Breno, an unemployed Brazilian footballer, will be Orpheus; Eva, an actress from Martinique , and Norma, a poor but ambitious Carioca, will be the two other female faces. The sets are already being set up, the actors are taming themselves and the first scenes are shot to tunes sung on the guitar. This artistic effervescence does not go unnoticed: two local agents of the CIA sniff a shot at playing with bossa nova, while the film sharpens the interests of Brazil, but also of Malraux’s France, anxious to place itself in international competition. national which constitutes the Cannes festival.” (Presentation of Liana Levi editions).