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  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 3 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 3 m

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 gorgeously te...

Directed By: Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

Written By: Annie Ernaux

  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 3 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 3 m

The Super 8 Years

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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 gorgeously te...

Directed By: Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

Written By: Annie Ernaux

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100
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.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Lisa Nesselson FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 13, 2022
The film plays as one extended memory—sometimes more bitter, sometimes more sweet, always a combination of both.
By Michael Frank FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Marya E. Gates FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 26, 2023
The slow-motion breakdown of a family is tracked by a lens that initially sought out intimacy and celebration, but finds itself, as the years pass, increasingly distanced from figures caught in its time capsule of a frame.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films Pelléas, Arte France Cinéma, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Dec 16, 2022
Duration 1 h 3 m
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Website https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/65079_0
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Awards

Festival international du cinema francophone en Acadie
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Nomination

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