At 17, young Annie spends a summer working at a children?s summer camp on the north coast of France. Far from the provincial Catholic atmosphere of her native village and her parents? grocery store, she hopes to fulfill her dreams of love. Her first sexual encounter with her supervisor H, five years her senior, is unexpectedly violent.
Yet Annie makes every effort to present the experience as a passionate love affair. She counters H?s obvious disinterest in her with an ecstatic attempt to satisfy her desire for him in other people?s bodies. Sarah Kohm takes Annie Ernaux?s Nobel Prize-winning novel and turns it into a poignant monologue performed by the touching Suzanne de Baecque.
Mémoire de fille, Annie Ernaux © Éditions Gallimard
Running time
1h40
Yet Annie makes every effort to present the experience as a passionate love affair. She counters H?s obvious disinterest in her with an ecstatic attempt to satisfy her desire for him in other people?s bodies. Sarah Kohm takes Annie Ernaux?s Nobel Prize-winning novel and turns it into a poignant monologue performed by the touching Suzanne de Baecque.
Mémoire de fille, Annie Ernaux © Éditions Gallimard
Running time
1h40
