In the super 8 years, Presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Annie Ernaux and her son, Journalist and director David Ernaux-Briot, go up and tell their family films, made in Super 8 between 1972 and 1981. In the years Super 8, Presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Annie Ernaux and her son, Journalist and director David Ernaux-Briot, go up and tell their family films, Made in Super 8 between 1972 and 1981. carried by the text and the voice of the French writer, Super 8 years reveals an era, underlines societal developments, mixes intimate and collective. A moving and striking documentary, To discover at the Cityclub cinema throughout the month of April.


At the beginning, There are images filmed within the family with a super 8 camera: Christmas meetings, Travel, summer holidays, childish heckles. These small silent sequences, Most of the ex-Mari of Annie Ernaux between 1972 and 1981, Here are mounted and commented on by the writer. In his observation of images, Annie Ernaux revisits a personal and distant time. It describes with finesse a bygone era and tells us about social class, of women's condition, And of his first novel Les Cabinets Videl.


"Reviewing our super eight films taken between 1972 and 1981, It appeared to me that these constituted not only a family archive but also a testimony on tastes, hobbies, The lifestyle and the aspirations of a social class, During the decade following 1968. These silent images, I wanted to integrate them into a story at the crossroads of history, social and also intimate, Using my personal newspaper of those years. ” (Annie Ernaux)

"This is also what the film tells, nostalgia, Despite the grain of the Super 8 and the beauty of the saturated colors, As if the novel the years came to life before our eyes: a woman in an era and how, behind appearances, The new sofa, Home at sea and birthday parties, Another life is played out, his inner life. " (She)

"Carried by a remarkable text, Annie Ernaux's voice transforms banal family archives into a powerful and universal documentary work. ” (Cinema files)

"As in the years, his masterpiece, But with images, Annie Ernaux tells herself and tells an era in all her historical and social complexity. ” (The echoes)