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A FAMILY<\/h1>\n

(Une famille)<\/h2>\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\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727643431859{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

CINEMA COMPETITION
\n<\/strong>DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
\n<\/strong>TRUFFAUT THEATRE<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727391065916{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1<\/strong>
\n6:05 pm (Screening ends at 7:30 pm)
\nFollowed by a conversation with writer\/director Christine Angot<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd0be597917400669dfafa” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”false” align=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1728249362629{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in association with:
\n<\/b>Le Bureau
\nFrance T\u00e9l\u00e9visions
\nVilla Albertine
\nWomen In Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/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_1728248593065{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Los Angeles Premiere <\/span><\/strong>| France\u00a0|\u00a02024\u00a0| Documentary |\u00a081\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n

Directed by:<\/strong> Christine Angot
\nWritten by:<\/strong> Christine Angot
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Bertrand Faivre (Le Bureau Films), Alice Girard (Rectangle Productions), France 2 Cin\u00e9ma
\nCinematography:<\/strong> Caroline Champetier
\nFilm Editing:<\/strong> Pauline Gaillard
\nInternational Sales:<\/strong> The Bureau Sales<\/p>\n

Christine Angot doesn’t pull any punches in her very raw first film, A Family<\/em><\/strong>. The family she holds under a microscope is her own \u2014 a family that has been the subject of several of her equally raw, often autobiographical novels, including Incest<\/em>, the work that catapulted her literary career. Christine was first raped by her father at the age of 13. The horror of that trauma, which happened repeatedly and continued for many years, shaped her life and her work, and has clearly haunted her ever since. In this film, she holds her family accountable. Individually interviewing several members of that family \u2014 and not always willingly \u2014 Christine continues to mine a wound that is so deep, and has filled her with such rage, in a desperate attempt to process it the only way she knows how: by doggedly probing the power dynamics at play and questioning everyone implicated. At times austere and almost difficult to witness, that brutal exercise evolves into an extremely moving, surprisingly healing journey.<\/p>\n

Christine Angot <\/strong>is a\u00a0French novelist, journalist, and playwright.\u00a0She published her first novel,\u00a0Vu du Ciel<\/em>, in 1990, but it was Incest<\/em> (1999) that propelled her to notoriety in the world of contemporary\u00a0French literature. Other novels include Les D\u00e9sax\u00e9s<\/em> and\u00a0Une\u00a0partie du C\u0153ur<\/em>, both awarded the\u00a0France Culture Prize in 2005;\u00a0Rendez-Vous<\/em>, winner of the 2006 Prix de Flore; and\u00a0Une semaine de vacances<\/em> (2012). Film director Catherine Corsini adapted Angot’s\u00a0Un amour\u00a0impossible<\/em> (2015) for her feature film, An Impossible Love<\/em> (2018). Angot co-wrote two screenplays with director Claire Denis: Let the Sunshine In<\/em> (2017) and Both Sides of the Blade<\/em> (2022), which was based on her novel Un tournant de la vie<\/em> (2018). She was\u00a0awarded the 2021 Prix M\u00e9dicis for her novel Voyage dans\u00a0l\u2019Est<\/em>, and has been a member of the\u00a0Goncourt Academy since 2023.\u00a0A Family<\/em><\/strong>, her first film, debuted in the Encounters section of this year’s Berlin Film Festival.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/a-family_poster.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”right”][\/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_1719507394773{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] A FAMILY (Une famille) [\/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\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727643431859{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] CINEMA COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM TRUFFAUT THEATRE [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727391065916{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 6:05 pm (Screening ends at 7:30 pm) Followed by a conversation with writer\/director Christine Angot [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd0be597917400669dfafa” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text disable_pattern=”false” align=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1728249362629{margin-bottom: […]<\/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-17127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17127","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=17127"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17127\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}