Specialty film closes the book on a mixed 2022 this weekend with the limited release by Sony of Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto; a literary doc by Lizzie Gottlieb from Sony Pictures Classics and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest from Neon via Cannes.
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French author and now filmmaker Annie Ernaux is having a year. She was just awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature. Her autobiographical L’Événement was adapted by director Audrey Diwan into the critically acclaimed Happening, released last spring. And this weekend, Kino Lorber presents her directorial debut, The Super 8 Years, at Film at Lincoln Center and DCTV Firehouse in NYC, expanding to LA and select markets through January.
The Super 8 Years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary quest to distill the past and future, is culled from home movies taken between 1972 and 1981, after her husband Philippe acquired an 8mm camera that became a family fixture. The film, a collaboration with her son David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and screened at Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich Film Festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to trips in Albania, Egypt, Spain and the former USSR, with Ernaux’ introspective voiceover as guide and muse. It is a decade when her first books were published, her two sons became teenagers and the wider world was shifting dramatically.
“We loved Annie’s writings for years but this film opened our eyes to a new dimension of her sensibility, melding courageous introspection with penetrating extrospection. Through the camera eye she captures objective correlatives of her deepest feelings in the seemingly quotidian doings of those closest to her,” said Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. The distributor “is proud to be the conduit for this new revelation beyond her literary talents.”
Ernaux’s 2000 autobiographical novel about a woman desperately trying to obtain an abortion in 1960s France
Specialty film closes the book on a mixed 2022 this weekend with the limited release by Sony of Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto; a literary doc by Lizzie Gottlieb from Sony Pictures Classics and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest from Neon via Cannes.
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