Travail de maturité – ANGLAIS Sujet no 13
Family in Films
“All happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina, Leon Tolstoy.
Whether dysfunctional, separated by exile, torn apart by history, laden with secrecy, crazy, loving, caring, smothering - and even perhaps happy, family is an endless source of investigation about human relations and social groups. In this research paper, you will be able to question Leon Tolstoy’s statement and explore how films envision new and older forms of families.
Some examples of films relevant to this research paper:
Festen (Thomas Vintenterberg, 1998) Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) L’Heure d’été (Olivier Assayas, 2008) Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog, 2019) Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin, Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994) 2008) Sorry, We Missed You (Ken Loach, 2019) La Fête de famille (Cédric Kahn, 2019) I, Daniel Blake ( Ken Loach, 2016) After the Storm (海よりもまだ深く, Umi yori Jungle Fever (Spike Lee, 1991) mo mada fukaku, Hirokazu Rodinný Film (Family Film, Olmo Omerzu, Kore-eda, 2016) 2015) Nobody Knows (誰も知らない, Dare mo So Long My Son (地久天长, Di jiu tian chang shiranai, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019) 2004) Still Life (三峡好人, Sānxiá hǎorén, Jia Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる, Zhangke, 2006) Soshite chichi ni naru, Hirokazu Amreeka (Cherien Dabis, 2009) Kore-eda, 2013) Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008) Our Little Sister (海街diary, Umimachi American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) Diary, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015) The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, Still Walking (歩いても 歩いても, 2001) Aruitemo aruitemo, Hirokazu A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, Kore-eda, 2008) 2005) Shoplifters (万引き家族, Manbiki kazoku, Little Miss Sunshine (Valerie Faris, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018) Jonathan Dayton, 2006) Loveless (Nelyubov, Andreï Zviaguintsev, Mes voisins les Yamada (Isao Takahata, 2017) 1999) Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) Winter’s Bones (Debra Granik, 2010) The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
And many more…
The subject requires a good mastery of both written and spoken English as the final document of about 20 pages will be presented in English. Anne-Catherine Jaboyedoff