2023-08-31 10:46:28
Published on August 31, 2023 at 12:46. Modified on August 31, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.
On the green table in his dining room, two small porcelain figurines hug each other. One is white, the other is black. To believe that nothing was left to chance, not even the salt and pepper shakers. From Sun Ra’s books to musical instruments hung on beams like travel photos, everything in Rachel M’Bon’s environment tends to bring perspectives together. His very interbreeding embodies it – Congolese father, German-speaking Swiss mother. And if “living together” sometimes sounds like an overused electoral slogan in 2023, it is for the 49-year-old director the only valid compass.
As a child, Rachel loves the murmur of the river behind her home, the pebbles she imagines alive, and the adventure stories in which she forgets herself. The farandole of characters to which his painter father, his big brothers who are hip-hop fans, his accountant mother and his rural school in a hamlet of Gros-de-Vaud expose him never ceases to amaze him. She is looking for herself. “I was a UFO. I of course understood very quickly that I was Black, through the gaze of the other, in particular that which people wore on my mother, Blanche, who we systematically thought after her divorce that she had adopted me. »
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