{"id":11493,"date":"2022-08-11T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11493"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:29:26","slug":"the-super-8-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-super-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SUPER 8 YEARS (LES ANN\u00c9ES SUPER 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE SUPER 8 YEARS (LES ANN\u00c9ES SUPER 8)<\/b><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663614788687{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Wednesday, October 12<\/strong> – <\/b>Truffaut Theater – 1:00 pm
\n(Screening ends at 2:35 pm)
\n<\/em>+ Short Film Presentation<\/a>: THE MIDWIFE
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DOCUMENTARY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663819115509{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Totem Films
\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/free-sn-rsvp-1.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1665088121252{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere<\/b><\/span> | France | 2022 | Documentary | 62 min | In French with English subtitles<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: <\/span>Annie Ernaux
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: David Thion, Philippe Martin (Les Films Pell\u00e9as)<\/span>
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Cl\u00e9ment Pinteaux
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Florencia Di Concilio
\n<\/span>Narrator<\/b>: Annie Ernaux
\n<\/span>International Sales<\/b>:<\/span> Totem Films\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Much like Andre Bonzel’s Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By,<\/i>\u00a0another documentary in this year’s line-up, The Super 8 Years<\/i><\/b> revolves around the emotional power of home movies.\u00a0 This time it’s the family memoir of accomplished French author Annie Ernaux.\u00a0 It begins in 1972, when Annie and her husband, Philippe, purchase a Bell & Howell Super 8 movie camera.\u00a0 It was a treasure more coveted than a dishwasher or color TV, she tells us, because film can capture life.\u00a0 Given prevailing gender roles, it was automatically assumed that Philippe would operate the pricey equipment.\u00a0 Like most amateur cameramen, his subject matter revolved around family holidays, birthdays and especially summer vacations.\u00a0 Often a chronicle of shifting political and cultural thought in France over those years, Annie’s simple, often touching voice-over narration also reveals the poignant story of her own evolution as a writer and a woman \u2014 at first writing in secret, then publishing her first books, right through the dissolution of her marriage in 1981.\u00a0 After their divorce, Philippe took the camera, leaving behind the projector and spools of film.\u00a0 “Those snippets of family life invisibly recorded within the history of those times.\u00a0 A fragment of a family autobiography.”\u00a0 And an exquisite tale it is.<\/p>\n

Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in literature, Annie Ernaux<\/b> is a major French writer of numerous highly autobiographical novels and memoirs, including <\/span>Cleaned Out<\/span><\/i> (1974); <\/span>The Frozen Woman<\/span><\/i> (1981);\u00a0 <\/span>A Man’s Place<\/span><\/i> (1984), which won the prestigious Renaudot Prize; <\/span>A Woman<\/span><\/i> (1987); <\/span>Shame<\/span><\/i> (1998); <\/span>Simple Passion<\/span><\/i> (2003); and <\/span>The Years<\/span><\/i> (2008), which won the Prix Marguerite-Duras and the Prix Fran\u00e7ois-Mauriac. She has also been honored with several awards for her entire body of work.\u00a0 Four of her books have been adapted to the screen: Patrick-Mario Bernard’s and Pierre Trividic’s <\/span>The Other One<\/span><\/i> (2008), Sara Fgaier’s <\/span>The Years<\/span><\/i> (2018), Danielle Arbid’s <\/span>Simple Passion<\/span><\/i> (COLCOA 2021), and Audrey Diwan’s <\/span>Happening<\/span><\/i> (2021).\u00a0 <\/span>David Ernaux-Briot<\/b>, son of Annie and Philippe Ernaux, began his career in science journalism, contributing to the TV series <\/span>E=M6<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>C\u2019est pas Sorcier<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 He wrote and directed the educational mini-series <\/span>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Machines, Corpus, Art et Sport<\/span><\/i> for the Universcience and CANOPE platforms.\u00a0 <\/span>The Super 8 Years<\/i><\/b>, their first documentary film, premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/super8.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1660239118773{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THE SUPER 8 YEARS (LES ANN\u00c9ES SUPER 8) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663614788687{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Wednesday, October 12 – Truffaut Theater – 1:00 pm (Screening ends at 2:35 pm) + Short Film Presentation: THE MIDWIFE DOCUMENTARY [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663819115509{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in Association with: Totem Films Women in Film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11493","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13127,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11493\/revisions\/13127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}