A Secret

A fascinating exploration of collective memory, A Secret depicts a young man who discovers the troubling choices his parents had to make as a Jewish couple living in Nazi-occupied France. With Mathieu Amalric and Ludivine Sagnier. (105 mins., 35mm)

A brief Q&A moderated by professors Judith Mayne and Leah Hewitt follows the screening. Leah Hewitt will also discuss representations of the Holocaust in French cinema at her 4:30 PM lecture, Defining Moments: The Trace of the Shoah in Recent French Film.

Organized by Distinguished Humanities Professor of French Judith Mayne and Assistant Professor Dana Renga, both in Ohio State’s Department of French and Italian, these events are presented with support from an OSU Research and Creative Activity Grant and cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and History of Art, and the university’s Film Studies Program, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and Wexner Center for the Arts.

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