Synopsis
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux’s text The Years, sharing these fragments of a life. Family-life scenes describe the passage of time where each gesture and every face become the expression of a confession that’s both a personal revelation and a collective narrative.
A word from Tënk
Between the autobiographical and the theoretical, Sara Fgaier's reinterpretation of Annie Ernaux's The Years, focuses on the aspect related to the moving images contained in the novel. The intimate engagement with the memory of the book (that of everyday objects and domestic technology) transforms in the film into a dive into familial scenes, always on the verge of dissolution, leaving room for our imagination. The faces of women in a transforming Italy blend into the identity ghost of a generation grappling with the archetypes of wife and mother, yet still imprisoned by time that seals the various "selves" over the decades. A small visual, poetic, and evocative essay, to affirm the stages of a liberation, still challenging.
Daniela Persico
Programmer and critic
