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Une femme qui part

BE 2024, 1h35
Direction: Ellen Vermeulen
Documentary
Dutch, French, English and Hindustani spoken, Dutch and French subtitles
Alle leeftijden
CUBO

Une femme qui part is Ellen Vermeulen’s latest documentary in which she studies the remarkable Marie-Louise Chapelle, the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas in 1952. She led a double life, being a mother for six months of the year and braving the other six untrodden mountains. Seventy years later, filmmaker Vermeulen repeats this arduous climb. Driven by Chapelle’s archive of diaries, letters and images, Vermeulen traverses with her camera the inhospitable snow landscapes that have been changed beyond recognition by time and climate. She interweaves recordings she made herself with Chapelle’s archival material and reflects on her own life questions: a life with children, or without?

Une femme qui part explores the tension between personal ambitions and social inequality, exposing the limitations to which women are often condemned. An intimate search for meaning, where time, memories and choices become deeply intertwined. A film about boundaries, desires and the complexity of being a woman.

Afterword with director Ellen Vermeulen on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

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