Event: a complete success (critic)

Lion d’Or de la Mostra 2021, this sober and just adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel returns to television.

At the end of Eventher autobiographical novel where Annie Ernaux told her career to make herself an abortion illegally in France of the Sixties, the author explained that she wanted to resist “Lyalism and anger. »By adapting said prose, Audrey Diwan So saw before her, a path a priori marked on which her footsteps had as best they can respect a cadence, a mood. To lyricism, the director therefore responds with an image to the (almost) square who imprisoned a being that the camera follows closely.

“” There had to be constrained for there to be stake. “Said Chabrol once scoring Huppert Angels, between four very tight walls in his Women’s businesscountertype film of this one. At Audrey Diwan, the off scope takes the place of threat, the frame becoming a sanctuary where the heroine – considered impure by an era – protects, fights and stands ready. Right especially. The invisible off -scope by nature prevents the exhibition of a reconstituted era and adds by subtraction an additional time of timelessness (the fight continues). As for “anger”, the mere fact of seeing Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei, an event in itself!) Going to the end of her fight with the apprehensions of a queen and an equally sovereign calm is the expression of an underground rage whose vibrations fracture the world.

Three years later But you are crazy, where there again the threat came from within a body, Audrey Diwan signs a survival tense where the stake is not only based on the facts reported but on the momentum which makes resistance to the established order possible.

The trailer of Eventto review this Wednesday evening on France 5:

Anamaria Vartolomei, from My Little Princess to Event