Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

synopsis

Since the 1970s, the books of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux have described rape, motherhood, and love life with shocking directness. However, the heroine of this film portrait is not her, but high school students and their fascinating interpretations of the author's texts. This absorbing series of interviews, conducted in classrooms in the capital of French Guiana and the suburbs of Paris, presents a metatext, a gateway in time, where autobiographical literary stories meet the reality of the current young generation.

„Film Claire Simon plynule dokazuje, proč by nemělo být pochyb o hodnotě umění pro společnost.“ — DOK Leipzig

biography

Claire Simon (born 1955) is a British filmmaker and member of the feminist association Collectif 50/50. She studied anthropology in Paris, is self-taught in film, and has been involved in documentary and feature filmmaking for over forty years. She has been making films since the 1980s and attracted attention with her film Récréations (1998). In 2023, Ji.hlava IDFF presented her feature film I Want to Talk About Duras (2021) and her documentary Our Body (2023).

film details

director:	Claire Simon
producer:	Emmanuel Perreau
script:	Claire Simon
photography:	Claire Simon
editing:	Luc Forveille
sound:	Jules Jasko, Nathalie Vidal, Clément Claude