Cover image for The super 8 years [DVD video]
Title:
The super 8 years [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2023]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Abstract:
The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family's memory. Compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images from 1972 to 1981 when her first books were published, her sons became teenagers, and her husband Philippe brought an 8mm film camera everywhere they went this portrait of a time, place, and moment of personal and political significance takes us from holidays and family rituals in suburban bourgeois France to trips abroad in Albania and Egypt, Spain and the USSR. Supplying her introspective voiceover, Ernaux and her co-filmmaker, her son David, guide the viewer through fragments of a decade, diffuse and vivid in equal measure.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.

Full screen (1.33:1).

Extras: Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot on The Super 8 years; Theatrical trailer.
Performers:
Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot, Philippe Briot.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Personal Subject:
Language:
French
Additional Language:
French dialogue; English subtitles.
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