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How Novelist Christine Angot Came to Make a Film About Her Family’s Reaction to Revelation That Her Father Repeatedly Raped Her


In 'A Family,' French novelist Christine Angot explores how members of her family reacted to the revelation that she was repeatedly raped by her dad.

It started when Angot went to Strasbourg as part of a book signing tour to support the publication of “Le Voyage dans l’Est,” which focuses on those in her inner circle who knew of the abuse and failed to intervene. Her novel “Incest” was considered to be a piece of autofiction, and the novel “An Impossible Love” also dealt with an incestuous relationship, and was adapted as a film by Catherine Corsini. As Angot proceeded to talk to others – including her mother, her former husband and her daughter – about her experience of having been raped by her father, she is “questioning” the status of a family in society, she says.

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