“From cinema is born melancholy”

This is not the first time that the name of Annie Ernaux appears in the cinema. His book Passion simple was adapted by Danielle Arbid, as well as The Event by Audrey Diwan, film crowned with a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, in 2021, and César for best young female hope at Anamaria Vartolomei.

But at the Cannes Film Festival, at the Directors’ Fortnight, the name…