Elokuva TEMPLATE

Elokuva on tekstitetty sekä suomeksi että englanniksi.

Seuraamalla miten Nobel-palkitun kirjailijan Annie Ernaux:n teoksia opetetaan ranskalaisissa kouluissa, arvostettu elokuvantekijä Claire Simon luo syvästi inspiroivan muotokuvan nuoruudesta ja kirjallisuuden kestävästä voimasta.

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This screening is subtitled both in Finnish and English.

A major figure of contemporary feminism, and the winner of a Nobel Prize in literature, Annie Ernaux embodies a source of individual and collective emancipation, at the junction of the intimate and the universal. Through the words of students and teachers, filmmaker Claire Simon delivers an original depiction of Annie Ernaux. How is the author’s work taught in schools? How is it received, studied, and comprehended? How does today’s youth, whether in France or elsewhere, make her writings their own? Claire Simon placed her camera in French high school classrooms, capturing the vivid impact of Annie Ernaux’s words: their power to awaken, their ability to rattle convictions and feed blossoming minds, finding in them a reflection of their own adolescent lives. Writing Life shows how Annie Ernaux’s work continues to inspire young people on a quest for freedom and meaning, and is a deeply hopeful portrait of today's youth.