The new winner of
the Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux
will be at the Rome Film Festival 2022 with a documentary,
Les Années Super-8,
of which she is director, together with her son David Ernaux-Briot.
The title of the work reveals its
intimate and amarcord nature
: the images are taken from familiar films made with a Super-8 camera, bought at the time by Philippe Ernaux, the writer's husband.
“
Reviewing our Super-8 films shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they were not only a family archive but also a testament to the hobbies, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class, in the decade following 1968. I wanted to integrate these silent images into a story that crosses the intimate, the social and the history, to show the taste and color of these years
”, declared
Annie Ernaux
.
Among the most famous works of the writer are:
The years, The place, A woman, Memory of a girl and the film
The choice of Anne
by Audrey Diwan was based on the
novel
The event
, which won the
Golden Lion in Venice in 2021.