Hors Cadre : Rencontre avec Anne Godard

For this new Hors cadre evening, Anne Godard chose to screen the film, Les Années Super 8 by David Ernaux-Briot and Annie Ernaux, a chronicle of an era as much as a powerful tale of women's emancipation.

While the film snippets taken between 1972 and 1981 constitute moving family archives and a testimony to an era, they become above all the support of a powerful narrative written and narrated by Annie Ernaux. By thus giving meaning to this scrolling of silent images, she summons and revisits a decade that was decisive in her life.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Anne Godard and David Ernaux, then a book signing of Nous aussi.

About

Anne Godard was born in Paris in 1971; she teaches literature and creative writing at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She published L’Inconsolable in 2006 with Éditions de Minuit (rtl-Lire prize) and Une chance folle in 2017 (Alain-Spiess prize for second novel). Nous aussi is her third novel.

Maud Simonnot was born in 1979; holder of a doctorate in literature and a Master's in publishing, Maud Simonnot has worked for more than twenty years in the book and diplomacy sectors. She was an editor at Flammarion then Gallimard, where she directed the NRF review. In September 2023, she became director of French fiction at Éditions du Seuil. She joined Actes Sud as editorial director in January 2026.

Les Années Super 8 is a film by Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot (France, 2022, 1h) - Directed by: David Ernaux-Briot - Commentary written and spoken by Annie Ernaux - Coproduction: ARTE France-La Lucarne, Les Films Pelléas