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Followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with director Mona Achache. 

In her inventive hybrid documentary, filmmaker Mona Achache takes on an inherited project: for three generations, the women in her family, all writers, have told their mothers’ stories. Mona’s mother, Carol, has passed away, leaving a trove of letters that offer clues into her unusual upbringing at the center of Paris’ mid-century literary scene. Partnering with Marion Cotillard, Achache artfully weaves a tapestry of family and cultural histories in a film that is ultimately about the survival of female artists, against the odds.

This film is part of Young French Cinema, a program of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.