The Super 8 Years

Name: The Super 8 Years
Genre: Biography, Drama, Documentary
Released: December 16, 2022
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot, Philippe Ernaux

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: December 16, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot, Philippe Ernaux

Summary: The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted just last year into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory. Compiled from gorgeouslyThe French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted just last year into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory. Compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images from 1972 to 1981 – when her first books were published, her sons became teenagers, and her husband Philippe brought an 8mm film camera everywhere they went – this portrait of a time, place, and moment of personal and political significance takes us from holidays and family rituals in suburban bourgeois France to trips abroad in Albania and Egypt, Spain and the USSR. Supplying her own introspective voiceover, Ernaux and her co-filmmaker, her son David, guide the viewer through fragments of a decade, diffuse and vivid in equal measure. The Super 8 Years is a remarkable visual extension of Ernaux’s ongoing literary project to make sense of the mysterious past and the unknowable future.… Expand

Director: Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 60 min

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Liam Lacey

Jan 12, 2023

Ernaux’s precise and thoughtful commentary connects the images to memories, discovering yet another harvest from the well-cultivated field of her autobiography. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Dec 15, 2022

Memory is also, I think, one reason we watch movies like this, which with its lapidary narration and melancholic images — with its laughing children, its difficult smiles and its ghosts — movingly pairs you with Ernaux and with the world that she has so brilliantly made. Read full review

Noel Murray

Dec 29, 2022

This moving, probing, beautifully written film doesn’t completely eschew nostalgia, but like Ernaux’s books, it treats the past as a prism, casting varying light depending on how, when and where it’s held. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

Dec 13, 2022

As a born writer, Annie’s commentary is a time capsule of her life half a century ago but also, by extension, of fascinating changes afoot in France itself. Read full review

The Film Stage Michael Frank

Dec 13, 2022

The film plays as one extended memory—sometimes more bitter, sometimes more sweet, always a combination of both. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Marya E. Gates

Dec 16, 2022

The compact documentary is ultimately more an exercise for the filmmakers than it is a truly rewarding cinematic experience for the audience. Read full review

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