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A Family

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Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived and died several years ago. It’s the city where she met him at the age of 13 for the first time, and he started to rape her. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera, and knocks on her family’s doors to push them for clarity about their attitudes to her father’s crime that lasted so many years. A cinematographic journey challenging social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

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Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter 02/23/2024
Like Angot’s writing, the film as a whole has a magic mirror quality, like so many abuse stories; everyone sees something slightly different reflected in the surface, depending on their own experience. Go to Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies 02/21/2024
In many ways this is a film about, if not so much administering punishment, then at least making sure that the extent of her trauma is both understood and possibly shared. Go to Full Review Wendy Ide Screen International 02/21/2024
A courageous, if somewhat uneven, work that opens doors to further discussion on the subject. Go to Full Review Jara Yáñez Caimán Cuadernos de Cine 08/07/2024
A muffled cry of pain that rejects compassion and sorrow as instruments of violence, while denouncing silence and indifference. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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Christine Angot

Director

Christine Angot

Screenwriter

Bertrand Faivre

Producer

Alice Girard

Producer

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Movie Info

Synopsis Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived and died several years ago. It’s the city where she met him at the age of 13 for the first time, and he started to rape her. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera, and knocks on her family’s doors to push them for clarity about their attitudes to her father’s crime that lasted so many years. A cinematographic journey challenging social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.
Director
Christine Angot
Producer
Bertrand Faivre, Alice Girard
Screenwriter
Christine Angot
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 22m