A Family

synopsis

For Christine Angot, since the beginning of her writing career, her books have been a space where she has been able to express what no one wanted to see or hear. Like incest. She was abused by her father since the age of 13. In her directorial debut, she goes back to the places where it happened and confronts those who were silent at the time. First her father's wife. Then her mother or her ex-partner. Long, uncomfortable but also cathartic dialogues are interspersed with excerpts from family films and photographs from the author's traumatic adolescence. From these fragments of the past, she composes a portrait of the man who stole her childhood. She is now using the written and spoken word to take it back.

“For the other scenes, the camera pushed us to communicate in ways we never had before, partly because of the whole filmmaking apparatus — the crew that had travelled by train, the camera operators standing around, the soundman, etc. There’s a formality to a film shoot that obliges you to have more than just a casual conversation.”

Quote source: The Hollywood Reporter

biography

Christine Angot (1959) is an award-winning French writer, journalist and playwright. Her controversial 1999 novel Incest made her a prominent figure in Francophone literature. She was elected a member of the Goncourt Academy in 2023. A Family is her directorial debut.

more about film

director:	Christine Angot
producer:	Betrand Faivre, Alice Girard
photography:	Caroline Champetier
editing:	Pauline Gaillard
sound:	Emmanuel Croset , Caroline Reynaud, Charly Clovis

contact

Marie Raux
mr@lebureaufilms.com