SPECIAL EVENT: “EVERYONE’S A CRITIC”

Saturday, March 17, 7:00 PM

Seattle Premiere

Canada/Switzerland/France, 1999, 94 min.

French w/subtitles

Léa Pool, Director  

Emporte-Moi (Set Me Free) 

At thirteen, Hanna is at a difficult age.  She is growing into womanhood in a household where her French-Jewish father, a washed-up poet and tormented soul, and fragile Quebecois Catholic mother both love and hate each other. She is even more the outsider at the Catholic school she attends.  Escaping to Montreal’s darkened movie houses, Hanna worships the bewitching femme fatale of Jean-Luc Godard’s Vivre sa vie.  Hanna spirals downward until her loving brother, adoring girlfriend and a hand-held camera set her free.  Actress Karine Vanasse is marvelous as the awkward Hannah, a young filmmaker to be, in this tender coming-of-age story and semi-autobiographical film.

Special Guests: Lucy Mohl, Director of Real Networks, former film critic for NBC News and KIRO Broadcasting, and founder of film.com; with Warren Etheredge, host of Seattle’s TalkCinema and “The Warren Report” (KQBZ 100.7)

For more information about this film, visit www.emporte-moi.com

Shown with Sea Horses (short)

For a list of related readings available at Tree of Life Books and Judaica and through the American Jewish Committee, please visit our SJFF 2000 Reading List.