The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
François Caillat / France / 2023 / 72 min
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
Since his debut ‘The End of Eddy’, 31-year-old French author Édouard Louis has published four novels about himself, his family, his hometown, his sexuality, his class struggle, his past and his transformation. These novels have made him one of the most important and well-known French writers of his time. In ‘The Many Lives of Édouard Louis’, he takes us on a personal stroll through his transformation from a poor family in northern France to being part of the cultural elite in Paris. Along the way, he talks about everything from class struggle, masculinity, shame and identity to questions about how to talk, how to smile and how to hold your knife and fork.