Audrey Diwan’s film The Incident

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For a film that wants to transform this report into images, this is a mortgage. Because the time outside and inside Annie Ernaux, the time in her sentences, is not the time on the screen. “The Event” only has a hundred pages; almost half of it is about the abortion that the author had performed by a midwife in Paris in January 1964 and her attempts to visualize the memory of it almost forty years later. Only a few diary-like passages remain for the world in which Ernaux, then still Annie Duchesne, lived at that time: Once she goes to the theater – Sartre’s “Closed Society” is showing -, another time to the cinema, in between she mentions Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas (“but I couldn’t muster any interest in that anymore”).

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