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“Annie Colère”: the forgotten pioneers of the battle for abortion

2022-11-30T05:34:06.016Z


Laure Calamy plays a woman who, a year before the Veil law, finds herself pregnant, the child too many in her working-class family. The start of a com


Their radiant smile communicates a splendid energy to you in a look.

In 1973, Brigitte was not yet 21 years old, the age of majority at the time, and Annie 26 years old.

We would listen to them endlessly, these historians of our most intimate daily life, that of our mothers and grandmothers, in this living room of the Terminus Nord.

These two young septuagenarians were part of the MLAC, the Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception, between April 1973 and the vote of the Veil law authorizing abortion in February 1975. The MLAC, a missing link in the he story of women's liberation, told magnificently by “Annie Colère” (in theaters this Wednesday, November 30), by Blandine Lenoir, with Laure Calamy, who brings this era and this movement to life.

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