Screening of "The Lives of Albert Camus"

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Writer Mathias Énard, winner of the Third Premi Mediterrani Albert Camus (Albert Camus Mediterranean Award), will speak with writer Laura Fernández about the legacy of Camus’ work and its Mediterranean resonances.

Through his recovery of unpublished archival material and restored amateur films, Georges-Marc Benamou aims, with this documentary (2020), to give a plural account of the life of Albert Camus. As the film shows, what makes Camus so universal and so popular is that, despite his being an illustrious writer, his life was one of struggle and rebellion, though he continued to be a lover of life, of football and the sea. From Algeria, the land of his birth, navigating two worlds, that of the European colonists and the Muslim population, everything in Camus is inextricably intertwined: joy and tragedy, wretchedness and glory, Mediterranean dandy and tuberculous orphan of Belcourt. The Lives of Albert Camus is not a film about an intellectual, or a hagiography about some man of marble but the story of a just man of the twentieth century, with all his successes and his doubts.

Film will be screened in original version with Catalan subtitles.

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