Claire Simon places her camera inside French classrooms to capture the living effect of Annie Ernaux’s words on adolescents. The film observes how literature can awaken conscience, unsettle certainties and prompt young people to reflect on their own adolescence. Through intimate, observational cinematography and quiet, thoughtful pacing, Simon traces a process of cultural transmission and the ways Ernaux’s work inspires quests for autonomy, language, and emotional freedom. In French.
Avant-premiere in presence of director Claire Simon.
