Nos traces silencieuses
France,
1998, 57 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Sophie Bredier, Myriam Aziza
- prod
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Yvon Davis
- scr
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Sophie Bredier, Myriam Aziza
- cam
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Jean-Marc Bouzou, Cecile Grenier
- editor
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Nadine Tabouriech
- source
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Agat Films & Cie, 52, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, France. FAX: 33-1-43-57-00-22. EMAIL: agat.films@free.fr
- premiere
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North American Premiere
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COMMENTS
Shown with First Person Plural. Sophie Bredier, Myriam Aziza in person.
OTHER
“I have never been back to Korea,” explains Korean-born, French-raised Sophie Bredier, subject of this quietly incisive documentary. “I was adopted at the age of four.... I remember almost nothing from there. Images and memories are so fragile that I often doubt them. But then there are the marks on my skin.” Bredier’s scars serve as metaphoric substitutes for elusive memories: living evidence of painful but precious experiences. Like Deann Borshay Liem’s search for a nearly forgotten personal history, Bredier’s excavation of her suppressed Korean past powerfully evokes the complex relationship between memory, family and cultural identity.
—Juliet Clark
FACTOID #95
Later to find fame with the amnesia-tinged film noir update Memento, British director Christopher Nolan was nominated for the SKYY Prize in 1998 for his first feature Following. Nolan shot the film about a writer who stalks strangers, on weekends over the course of a year on a budget of $6,000.
