Film L’événement with short introduction by film scientist Jack Post L’événement is the most recent film by the French-Romanian filmmaker Audrey Diwan and her largely female crew. This beautiful film, which will receive the Golden Lion in 2021.
Venice Film Festival, is based on Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novella, de grande dame of French literature.
Set in 1963 France, the film tells the story of brilliant student Anne who becomes pregnant and “wants to get rid of it” to finish her studies and escape the working-class environment where she comes from. Anne struggles with her pregnancy that keeps continues and continues. The film confronts us with the dilemmas, the shame, the pain, the secret, but above all the deafening silence about an illegal abortion. abortion was at the time, it was taboo and prohibited in France.
The film is preceded by a short introduction by film scholar Jack Post who will discuss how the autobiographical story of Annie Ernaux by the filmmaker Adrey Diwan and the actress Anamaria Vartolomei (Anne) is depicted on the screen and how this one extremely personal event is made ‘our’ story. Language of introduction and subtitles Dutch. Film is French spoken.
Entrance fee: € 9.80
Amis and students Alliance Française € 6.80. Book by phone (043) 321 40 80 and on by showing the Carte Nationale, you can pick up your ticket at the cash register.
Friday, April 29, 2022 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Lumiere Cinema Maastricht
For more information: https://www.alliance-francaise.nl/maastricht/