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L'Évènement, by Audrey Diwan, is released in the United States in the midst of a controversy over the right to abortion

2022-05-06T04:23:12.843Z


Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2021 Golden Lion, the film is in theaters this week in American theaters.


France, 1963. Anne, a promising student, played by the Franco-Romanian actress Anamaria Vartolomei, decides to have a clandestine abortion to finish her studies and decide her future.

Six months after its French release,

L'Évènement,

a film adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel, will be released on Friday May 6 in American theaters, while the question of the right to abortion is the subject of controversy in the country. .

Directed by Audrey Diwan, this thriller-like drama, awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, tells a story that could well become that of thousands of American women in the coming months.

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Politico

magazine

revealed this week that the United States Supreme Court is working on a text repealing “Roe v.

Wade” which legalizes abortion.

The release of the working copy sparked strong reactions across the country.

If this decision were to materialize, the abortion legislation would then revert to the federated states.

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“A grim omen of things to come”

It is in this tense political context that Audrey Diwan's film will therefore make its debut in American cinemas, giving a very special resonance to the story of Anne, inspired by that of Annie Ernaux.

If the costumes and the music make it possible to locate the film in the Sixties, that is to say more than ten years before the legalization of the abortion in France,

The Event

seems deliberately contemporary.

"When I started thinking about making a film on this subject, everyone asked me why I wanted to do it at that time"

, explains Audrey Diwan to

Variety

.

“Now everyone tells me how timely it is”

.

A timely character that the media across the Atlantic did not fail to highlight.

"The chilling reality of 1963 France in

L'Évènement

has suddenly become, not a distant memory, but a grim harbinger of things to come

," writes journalist Anne Thompson in the specialist media

The Indie Wire

.

An analysis shared by Martin Tsai for

AV Club

:

"Audrey Diwan's film is unlikely to sway or change anyone's mind, but it faithfully captures a sadly timely picture of what a woman's life can be like. woman when abortion is prohibited.

The United States is now suspended from a decision by the Supreme Court, which is composed of a majority of conservative judges, since the appointment of a figure of the religious right, Amy Coney Barette by Donald Trump.

Audrey Diwan also points out in

Variety

that six of the nine members of the Court are men: “

By what right will they determine whether women have access to abortion?

I would love to show them this movie.

Abortion is a very complicated decision.

It's even difficult, moreover, to be pregnant, when you want a baby.

For these men, all this is only theoretical.

»

Source: lefigaro

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