Name: Une Famille (A Family) Screening, Q&A with Christine Angot and Zoë Elton
Start: 2024-10-27T19:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-27T21:00:00-0700

Sunday October 27, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

4 Star Theater

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Part of Litquake’s Words Around the World

Co-presented with Villa Albertine and Mill Valley Film Festival

Novelist, screenwriter and director Christine Angot joins Zoë Elton, artistic director for the Mill Valley Film Festival, to present a special screening of A Family (dir. Angot, 2024). This radical and powerful documentary examines the rarely discussed topic of incest as it follows Angot, who, unplanned, begins confronting family members and friends about the abuse she endured as a teenager at the hands of her father. This filmic journey explores the unspoken reasons why such acts went unchallenged, examines the role of her father, and questions the societal and personal implications of openly confronting the truth both then and now. Film audio in French with English subtitles. $15

Moderators

Zoë Elton

Zoë is a Herefordian by birth and a Hampsteadian by heart, though many years in the San Francisco Bay Area has made her Oaklandish by avocation. She’s a film curator, writer, interviewer and cartoonist, who’s also a tea-drinker, book nerd, traveller, food-appreciator and yogi... Read More →

Authors and Participants

Christine Angot

CHRISTINE ANGOT is one of the most controversial authors writing today in France. Since the 1999 publication of Incest, Angot has remained at the center of public debate and has continued to push the boundaries of what society allows an author to express. Born in 1958 in Châteauroux... Read More →

Sunday October 27, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
4 Star Theater

Film Screening

Litquake 2024

Zoë Elton

Christine Angot

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