LOUISE L'INSOUMISE – Charlotte Silvera
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14 x 19 cm / 64 pages + DVD / May 2023
ISBN: 978-2-35137-339-2
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“I wanted to show how a child violently asserts her freedom, both by rejecting the constraints of the family environment and by exploiting its resources. Cinema has often shown children - especially boys - in situations of abandonment or oppression: a resigned or absent family, a school environment alien to the child's aspirations... Not so in Louise's case.While her parents refuse to choose between tradition and modernity, she sides with the latter, turning school and television into a war machine against her family.
If Louise lies, steals and dreams of her parents' death, it's not in the manner of a victim rebelling against her tormentors, but of a child mad for freedom, who steals the keys that her family has placed in front of her while forbidding her to touch them. In Louise, the stories of several peoples come together - French, Jewish, Arab... It's the interplay between these stories that allows her to achieve greater freedom." Charlotte Silvera
DVD :
- Louise... l'insoumise
1985, fiction, 100 min. - 4K restored version
Prix Georges-Sadoul / Interpretation Award, Moscow Festival / Grand Prix de Cadix
Director: Charlotte Silvera; screenplay: Josée Constantin, Charlotte Silvera; production: Gerland Productions; photography: Dominique Le Rigoleur; editing: Geneviève Louveau; sound: Claude Bertrand; music: Jean-Marie SéniaWith : Catherine Rouvel, Roland Bertin, Marie-Christine Barrault, Myriam Stern, Joëlle Tami, Deborah Cohen, Lucia Bensasson, Dominique Bernard
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The story takes place in the early 1960s. Louise is a rebellious child, rebelling against the confinement and religious traditions imposed on her by her family: forbidden to go out except for school and errands, to eat anything other than kosher food... It's all too much for Louise, who dreams of freedom, playing with her friends and eating rillettes. It's thanks to school and television that Louise manages to escape. Between the Torah and her mother, the rebellious child sets off in search of the paths to freedom.
BOOK :
- Still photographies by David Koskas
- Preparatory documents for the film
- “Louise... l'insoumise”, text by Hervé Le Roux (french only)
- “Familles, je vous hais”, text by Michel Mardore (french only)
