Cergy is their native terrain: That’s where we met up with Annie Ernaux and Céline Sciamma. But the writer and the filmmaker have much more in common than this ville nouvelle [new town] in the western part of the Île-de-France. Their respective bodies of work illuminate the weight of social norms, as well as the liberating power of desire. Both avowed feminists, they are fully committed to the struggles of their time.
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