Rachel Pronger

“With the camera, I feel very close to people”: Claire Simon on Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

In her latest film, French documentary-maker Claire Simon turns her lens on Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. Eschewing the biopic format, Simon captures candid classroom debates across France and Guiana, revealing how Ernaux’s radical honesty about class, gender and identity resonates with a new generation.