Home videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
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At its best, it’s an astonishing piece of film work that knits together the personal and the political without making a meal of either.| Read in full: The Super 8 Years film review We Love Cinema
Literary ambition, motherhood and a quietly strained marriage appear in the sweet, soft focus home movies of French author Annie Ernaux.The Guardian
It’s Ernaux’s mastery of the memoirist’s art, the gathering up of scattered pearls of recollection in the sweep of history, that places The Super 8 years in the pantheon of narrow-gauge diary films.Little White Lies
Over seemingly banal home movie footage of domestic life, Nobel-prize winning author Annie Ernaux recounts the beginnings of her writing career, and the end of her marriage.Sight and Sound
In his fourth feature film, writer-director Louis Garrel explores with wit and tenderness the risk and worth of second chances
A mountain trek intertwines with a road-building project, granting incisive, if underpowered, insight into a much underseen world
With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity
Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
