Southern Circuit Film Series - Unoccupied Zone: the Impossible Life of Simone Weil April 14, 2008

Following the 1940 German occupation of Paris, Simone Weil is forced to leave for the "unoccupied zone" of southern France. Under Vichy, she is denied the right to teach. For two years, she waits, she says, for God. The film stages the "theatre" of her thought through a mise-en-scene whose rear screen projections of live-feed video and archival newsreels antagonize the spectacle of biographical reconstruction being played out before it.