De jaren
De jaren is the masterpiece by the French author Annie Ernaux, which has been showered with awards and acclaimed reviews. The Standaard der Letteren called it a "dizzying history of a time and of a life." For director Eline Arbo, it is dream material. In the book, the two lines that she explores in her work come together, on the one hand the “sociological” view of Weg met Eddy Bellegueule (2020) and on the other hand the powerful women as protagonists of De uren (2021) and Yerma
(2021).
Run time tba
Genre Theater
Language Dutch
De jaren
She grows up among the rubble of the Second World War and wrestles herself clear from her middle-class environment. She becomes a writer with a keen political and social awareness. Using photos, songs and news items, she talks about emancipation, being a woman, class differences and individual opportunities.
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In individual scenes, musical, cheerful and melancholic memories are evoked. By following one life, we see the world change. “All images will disappear. Death wipes everything out in one second and so we have to save something from the time where we will never be again.”
Eline Arbo about De jaren
'When I read De jaren, I immediately knew: this book was written for me. Annie Ernaux's style is so striking and universal that all those memories resonate in me too. Her images evoke a feeling of nostalgia, but also shame and anger at the same time.'
CREDITS
text Annie Ernaux
direction and adaptation Eline Arbo
-|-cast Mariana Aparicio Torres, Tamar van den Dop, Hannah Hoekstra, Antoinette Jelgersma and June Yanez