L'année de mes sept ans (2005)
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After her parents’ separation, seven-year-old Hélène must adjust to life with her grandparents in Lille.
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In autumn 1952, seven-year-old Hélène and her nine-year-old brother Michel are separated from their parents, who are divorcing, and sent to live with their maternal grandparents in Lille. Hélène faces an unfamiliar household: her grandmother is somewhat authoritarian and rigid, while her taciturn grandfather is obsessed with the war and the Nazi genocide. As she tries to adjust to this new life, the family separation and her grandparents’ contrasting temperaments shape her initial struggle.
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In the autumn of 1952, France is trying to forget the scars of war. Seven-year-old Hélène and her nine-year-old brother Michel are suddenly separated from their parents. In the process of getting divorced, their parents decide to leave them with their maternal grandparents, who live in Lille. Between a somewhat authoritarian and rigid grandmother and a taciturn grandfather obsessed with the war and the Nazi genocide, Hélène tries to adjust to this new life. But soon, her Jewish identity is revealed to her, along with accounts of Nazi atrocities recounted by her grandfather and brother. Already emotionally fragile, the little girl gradually conflates the tragedy of History with her own existence.
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