L’archipel de mélancolie d’une cinéphile en exil. À propos de "Jerry & Me" (2013) de Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how, for Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa as an exiled cinephile, melancholy operates as an act of resistance, enabling her to evoke a lost country, childhood and cinema. Based on the philosophy of Édouard Glissant, we argue that Saeed-Vafa, by adopting an archipelagic way of thinking that links her to contemporary Iranian history, to America and to the “Tout Monde of cinema”, including Hollywood films dubbed in Persian, manages to successfully navigate in the melancholic waters of exile instead of sinking into them.