Suzanne Daveau

Jul 21 2022 N/A 1h 59m
Biography, Documentary

This documentary portrait covers all the themes of Daveau’s rich life: from her field research and private life to feminism and the influence of the modern age on family relationships and science. Her passionate life is examined in detail in an inexhaustible series of stunning archival photos and home videos recorded by Daveau, and in voice-over she speaks openly, extensively and full of wonder about life and the world around her.

Plot

Portraiture and history, testimony and geography cohere to absorbing effect in Luísa Homem's interview-based micro-epic. The film's titular subject, a French geographer and adventurer born in 1925, recounts her own life, covering her student years during World War II, her subsequent field research in Africa and Portugal, her loves, her family, her feminism, and her reflections on modernity. Homem strikingly weaves together interviews, archival photos, and home movies to arrive at a complex and immersive portrait of a modern woman perennially fascinated by the world around her and consumed by an insatiable hunger for knowledge.

Written by

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Directed by

Luisa Homem

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Production Countries

Portugal

Production Companies

ICA, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Terratreme

Languages

Français, Português

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Scores
# of Votes
21
Average Rating
7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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