The collapse of time and domestic memory: Annie Ernaux’s “The Super 8 Years”
“The Super 8 Years” — directed by Annie Ernaux, French writer and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature — records her domestic life from 1972 to 1981. The film was primarily shot by her then-husband Phillipe Ernaux with a handheld camera, switching between moving and still figures. The film is an introspection of Ernaux’s personal life, where she closely reconsiders her relations to family and history.