Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux brings her “Super 8 Years” to the big screen – Specialty Preview

French writer-turned-filmmaker Annie Ernaux has a year. She has just been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. your autobiographical The event was adapted into the award-winning by director Audrey Diwan happen, published last spring. And this weekend, Kino Lorber presents her directorial debut, the big 8 years, at Film at Lincoln Center and DCTV Firehouse in NYC, and expanding to LA and select markets through January.

The Super 8 years, a visual extension of Ernaux’s decades-long literary search for past and future, consists of home movies shot between 1972 and 1981 after her husband Philippe bought an 8mm camera that became a family staple. The film, a collaboration with her son, David Ernaux-Briot, had its world premiere at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and was screened at the Busan, Rome, New York and Zurich film festivals. It’s a range of times and places, from holidays and family events in suburban France to travels in Albania, Egypt, Spain and the former USSR, with Ernaux’s introspective voice as guide and muse. This is a decade in which her first books were published, her two sons became teenagers and the rest of the world changed dramatically.

“We’ve loved Annie’s writing for years, but this film opened our eyes to a new dimension of her sensibility, blending brave introspection with poignant extrospection. Through the eye of the camera, she captures objective correlations of her deepest feelings in the seemingly mundane actions of her closest friends,” said Richard Lorber, CEO of Kino Lorber. The distributor “is proud to take this new revelation beyond her literary talents.”

Ernaux’s 2000 autobiographical novel, about a woman desperate to have an abortion in France in the 1960s when the procedure was still illegal, was released in the United States by IFC Films as happeng and won last month’s Gotham Award for Best International Film. It began with ominous timing shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade was leaked, and just before it became state law, it made abortion illegal in about half of US states.

Ernaux (82) was the 17th woman and the first French woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature since it was first awarded in 1901. Personal memory.”

The feminist and professor dedicated her prize to “everyone who suffers, who suffers in one way or another from domination, from racism, from everything that is a form of inequality. And for all those who fight and are not recognized.”

Her other works include A Frozen Woman, Simple Passion (adapted to canvas by Danielle Arbid), A Woman’s Story, Cleaned Out, Shame, Exteriors, A Man’s Place, I Remain In Darkness, A Woman’s Story, Getting Lost and Do What you say or else.

Avatar: Away from the water is over and new special openings or new openings are reserved. Here are a few more:

IFC Films presents The Almond and the Seahorse on 14 screens. Set up perfectly Also with Celyn Jones, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Trine Dyrholm in the debut dramatic role of diva Rebel Wilson. It follows two couples where one partner has survived a traumatic brain injury and how it affects their life together. Wilson is Sarah, a woman who is afraid of being forgotten. With Meera, Syal is a doctor determined not to let them all unravel.

It is directed by Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kaite O’Reilly, based on their stage production of the same name.

Wolfe offered exemption Nelly & Nadine by Magnus Gertten. This dramatic documentary follows opera singer Nelly Mousset-Vos and writer Nadine Hwang, who met and fell in love in 1944 while imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. Despite being separated in the final months of the war, Nelly and Nadine later manage to reunite and spend the rest of their lives together. For years, their love story was a secret, even from some of their immediate family, until Nelly’s granddaughter, Sylvie, opened up the couple’s unseen personal archives and history. In New York at the Cinema Village. Heading to the Palm Springs International Film Festival and a limited theatrical expansion next month.

Super opens Ireland’s Oscar International Best Picture entry The quiet girl for a qualifying run in NY (Angelika) and LA (Sunset 5). Colm Bairéad’s critically acclaimed feature debut premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Generation Kplus International Jury Grand Prize for Best Film. It screened at the Dublin International Film Festival, won the Audience Award and won Best Irish Film at the 2022 Dublin Film Critics’ Circle Awards.

Newcomer Catherine Clinch plays Cáit, a quietly neglected girl in rural Ireland in 1981. Sent by her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to spend the summer with her mother’s family, she thrives under her care. But in a house where there are no secrets, she discovers a painful truth. Also with Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Michael Patric and Kate Nic Chonaonaigh. Written by Bairéad based on the short story Feed by Irish writer Claire Keegan.

The apology, from RLJE Films, opens on half a dozen screens and AMC+ and Shudder. Alison Star Locke’s debut feature film written/directed, starring Anna Gunn, Janeane Garofalo and Linus Roache. Recovering from alcoholic Darlene Hagan, Gunn prepares to host her family’s Christmas party again, 20 years after her daughter’s death, with the help of her friend and neighbor Gretchen (Garofalo). Late on Christmas Eve, Darlene’s estranged ex-brother-in-law Jack (Roache) arrives unannounced with nostalgic gifts and a dark secret that turns into a violent game of revenge.