Kaddish, la femme chauve en peignoir rouge

In this autofiction created from the novels of Imre Kertész, the Hungarian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, and whose work is as diverse, sometimes funny, as it is profound and powerful, Margaux Eskenazi continues her work on memory: "To remember is to create a part of the world" writes Kertész, who makes his personal history the material of his novels. For the director, Kertész's voice is invaluable for thinking about our present, and for sketching out answers to questions that are close to her heart about Judaism, memory and the use we make of it, and our political future. She has long been reflecting on the subject of Jewish identities: in the Diaspora, in Israel and in decolonial French Jewish thought. Her theatrical and musical fresco is a far cry from a museal or victim-like spectacle. She draws on the multiple, sometimes contradictory narratives that make up our society, to collectively envision a world where the wounds of memory could heal. Like Kertész, she thinks more about the future than the past.