“A Family”, interview with director Christine Angot

After talking about it in her book, “L’Inceste” (Stock), which made her a renowned writer, Christine Angot decided to embark on a cinematic journey, a documentary, “A family – Une Famille“, in the Encounters competition at the 74th Berlinale, where she decided to confront her family and that of her father, now deceased and guilty of incest, about how they have dealt ( or not dealt at all) with the situation.

With the help of her director of photography and friend, Caroline Champetier, while on a book tour in Strasbourg, she decided to finally talk to her family while being shot on camera. This is how “A family“, her debut film was born.

Christine Angot accompanies us through her cinematic and personal journey and explains how the shame she has felt her whole life since the incest, went away in the moment she decided to first write and then direct her story.

The pages of her book and the images of her film were there to testify her pain and the violence she had to suffer.

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