A FAMILY
France| 2024 | 82 min | col.
The film director goes back to Strasbourg, where she met her father for the first time when she was thirteen. It was the beginning of protracted sexual abuse. She has now decided to break the silence she maintained for decades to face the repressed and the unsaid with family members and partners. Writer Christine Angot moved behind the camera to do through film that which she has always done through her writing: radically reversing the notion of victim, sweeping away once and for all the aura of commiseration and pietism surrounding the offence, blowing the bourgeois righteousness that conceals spite and superiority, and putting the viewer face to face with the misery of a possible judgmental attitude. An almost unmatched upsetting, painful film, an act of deep courage in which determinedness does not exclude trepidation, and love seeks protection from the darkest sides of soul. A gesture of personal vindication that bears a universal value. (a.s.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 07 Nov 2024
- Time: 11:00
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Christine Angot
Christine Angot (1959) is a French novelist, playwright and journalist. Her first novel, Vu du Ciel, was published in 1990. She rose to great prominence in 1999 with L’Inceste. This was followed by titles including Les Désaxés and Une partie du Cœur, both of which were awarded the Prix France Culture. She was made an Officer of Arts and Letters in 2013 and has been a member of the Goncourt Academy since 2023. Her most recently published work Le Voyage dans l’Est won the 2021 Medici Prize. Une famille is her debut film.
