Annie Ernaux, announced in the
short list
of potential laureates, did not receive the Nobel Prize for Literature last October. The 81-year-old writer consoles himself with cinema. In the same year, three films put her in the spotlight. After
Passion simple
, by Danielle Arbid, and
I liked to live there
, a documentary by Régis Sauder shot in Cergy, where Annie Ernaux has lived since 1977,
L'Événement
arrives in theaters with the golden lion won at the Venice Film Festival. A surprise insofar as the name of its director did not place him among the favorites. Audrey Diwan, journalist, novelist, co-writer in particular of Cédric Jimenez's films, including the virile
Bac Nord
, got behind the camera in 2019 with
But You're Mad
.
Céline Sallette played a woman whose partner suffered from a cocaine addiction.
In her handbag, at the bend of a map, we saw Annie Ernaux's book, published by Gallimard in 2000.
To read also
BAC north, the law of Marseille
L'Événement
is an autobiographical account of a clandestine abortion
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