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Set Me Free

Switzerland / Canada / France, 1999
FILM, Fiction, 94 min.

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directed by
Léa Pool
Written by
Léa Pool
Status
In distribution
Queer Cinema

The year is 1963, in Montreal. Hanna is 13 and is trying to become a woman, caught between her father, a stateless Jew who is an unhappy, tormented and clumsy poet, and her young mother, a fragile and lifeless Catholic French-Canadian. In her efforts Hannah is helped by her tender and conniving brother; her only friend Laura, who gradually succumbs to the charm of both brother and sister; and finally her teacher, whose resemblance with Anna Karina in “Vivre sa vie” continually haunts the teenage filmbuff. But Hanna must realise that freedom requires choices that she alone can make and that, as the spellbinding Nana says in Godard's film, she is free but above all responsible for… living her life.

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World Premiere
1999
Original Version
French (english subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 94 min.
Production
Catpics Coproductions AG, Cité-Amérique, Haut et Court, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Producer
Alfi Sinniger
directed by
Léa Pool
Written by
Léa Pool (in collaboration with Isabelle Raynauld, Nancy Houston and Monique Messier)
Editing
Michel Arcand
Location Sound Mix
François Musy
Production Design
Serge Bureau
Lighting Design
André Pinkus

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