North American Premiere

Henriette

Henriette is the “doyenne,” or respected older figure, of an old Parisian working-class neighborhood. As the neighborhood rapidly gentrifies, director Magali Roucaut films Henriette in her apartment, revealing her life as a working-class woman and her attachment to the place where she has carried out her daily life. Beyond Henriette’s rich and generous testimony, told in no uncertain terms, is the intimate encounter between Henriette, Magali Roucault, and a sensitive camera that attempts to capture the last traces of a working-class life and a place that no longer exists.

Directed by

Magali Roucaut

2024 | 34 min | French (s.t. English)

Filmmaker’s country : France
Country of filming : France

Organized and presented in collaboration with McGill’s Critical Media Lab (CML).

*The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Joseph Dahdah and Christine Chevalier-Caron.

Trained as a historian and sociologist, Christine Chevalier-Caron is head of research at Exeko. She is interested in the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of historical narrative. Through this process, she questions mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, as well as representations and their impact on social relationships. Christine currently leads research-creation projects in which she uses the arts to convey the voices of groups excluded or stereotyped by the dominant narrative. In addition to her work at Exeko, Christine teaches history at Collège Ahuntsic and Université du Québec à Montréal.