Retour à Reims (Fragments) (2021)
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Archival footage and passages from Didier Eribon’s essay trace working-class history and a shift in political allegiance.
The story
Drawing on selected passages from Didier Eribon’s essay, this documentary expands on its themes through edited archival footage about working-class history, spanning from the 1930s into an unspecified later period. Adèle Haenel reads the text as narrator. Rather than follow the essay’s many periods, characters and subjects, director Jean-Gabriel Périot centers the film on the history of the working class and the change in political allegiance from Communist Party voting to far-right voting.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The documentary uses selected passages from Didier Eribon’s essay, expanding on its themes through the use and editing of various kinds of archival footage about working-class history, from the 1930s to the early [year/period unspecified]. A text is read by Adèle Haenel, who serves as the narrator. The passages taken from Didier Eribon’s essay are essentially those devoted to his mother and grandmother. Reducing Didier Eribon’s story—which moves from one period and character to another, addressing many subjects—to the scope of a ninety-minute film meant betraying it by making a series of choices. Jean-Gabriel Périot decided to discard everything specifically related to the author as a person, from the question of homosexuality to that of the class movement. Jean-Gabriel Périot focused on working-class history, showing how the shift took place from voting for the Communist Party to voting for the far right.
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