The Super 8 Years

00:00:30 THE SUPER 8 YEARS

00:02:38 from school and the supermarket.

00:05:01 gives me freedom.

00:07:22 Like everyone in left-wing France, we were watching Chile

00:09:56 In Valparaiso, in the mist,

00:13:23 My sister-in-law Dominique Ernaux,

00:15:36 by pollution, a concept just emerging then,

00:18:10 in the neighbouring sea

00:20:35 a fairly quiet Germany,

00:22:53 it was to the Ardèche we went, in the holidays of February 1975,

00:25:06 In these silent images, bodies speak for themselves.

00:27:55 The Sigurimi, equivalent to the KGB and the Stasi, was watching.

00:30:23 of all the monuments to the glory of the Stalinist-Maoist regime,

00:33:24 and we could no longer say where or why.

00:36:38 We unconsciously sought to give the present a future and create,

00:39:00 as it is today,

00:41:10 which I'd wanted to see at 19

00:43:33 Today I see in that absence a sign unnoticed then,

00:45:49 silent manager and steward,

00:48:31 the Tagus and the sinister Alcázar.

00:52:34 the alleys of Obidos, where I bought an embroidered dress,

00:55:00 to Leonid Brezhnev,

00:57:03 and then watch the images roll

01:00:19 Subtitling: HIVENTY