{"id":14952,"date":"2023-11-03T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:38:35","slug":"the-super8-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-super8-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SUPER 8 YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14953\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/super8-236x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/super8-236x350.jpeg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/super8-600x889.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/super8.jpeg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #660084; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">THE SUPER 8 YEARS<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2022\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 62&#8242;\u00a0 &#8211; Documentary, Biopic.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Written by:\u00a0Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Annie Ernaux.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition Director&#8217;s Fortnight Cannes 2022. West Coast Premiere <strong>COLCOA 2021<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Kino Lorber Release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>The Super 8 Years\u00a0revolves around the emotional power of home movies.\u00a0 This time it\u2019s the family memoir of accomplished French author Annie Ernaux.\u00a0 It begins in 1972, when Annie and her husband, Philippe, purchase a Bell &amp; 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\u2019s 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 \u201cThose snippets of family life invisibly recorded within the history of those times.\u00a0 A fragment of a family autobiography.\u201d\u00a0 And an exquisite tale it is.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kinonow.com\/film\/the-super-8-years\/639b63ed85ab9700019f1ad0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SUPER 8 YEARS | 2022\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 62&#8242;\u00a0 &#8211; Documentary, Biopic. 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