Screen Daily by Lisa Nesselson
As a born writer, Annie’s commentary is a time capsule of her life half a century ago but also, by extension, of fascinating changes afoot in France itself.
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France · 2022
1h 0m
Director Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Annie Ernaux, one of France’s most respected contemporary writers, uses her family archive to examine the nascent feminist movement in France. The Super 8 Years shows the lifestyles, pastimes, and aspirations of women in the bourgeois social class in post-1960s France.
Screen Daily by Lisa Nesselson
As a born writer, Annie’s commentary is a time capsule of her life half a century ago but also, by extension, of fascinating changes afoot in France itself.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Memory is also, I think, one reason we watch movies like this, which with its lapidary narration and melancholic images — with its laughing children, its difficult smiles and its ghosts — movingly pairs you with Ernaux and with the world that she has so brilliantly made.
RogerEbert.com by Marya E. Gates
The compact documentary is ultimately more an exercise for the filmmakers than it is a truly rewarding cinematic experience for the audience.
The Film Stage by Michael Frank
The film plays as one extended memory—sometimes more bitter, sometimes more sweet, always a combination of both.
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