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A Family

A Family

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 20, 2024

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

69%

Original Title

Une famille

Production Companies

Le Bureau Films, Rectangle Productions

Director

Christine Angot

Description

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.