A Family
Christine Angot / France / 2024 / 82 min
Controversial and confrontational film debut from French author Christine Angot who confronts past abuse and the family that covered it up. A merciless film with a belligerent willpower.
Christine Angot is recognised as one of the most important French writers of our time. She is also one of the most controversial – and her debut as a filmmaker does not change that fact. Once again, Angot takes the unwilling lead role in her own painful story of surviving sexual abuse from her father. The father is dead, but nothing is forgotten or forgiven. And now it’s time to confront those who did nothing to stop him. In a transgressive move, she visits distant family members with camera in hand to finally provoke reactions and responses. It is a method of conflict that turns everything you might think about documentary ethics on its head, but Angot does not spare herself either. As in her books, the honesty and vulnerability is so intense that you feel it in your own body. An unforgettable film from a woman with words as her weapon of choice.