” finds the director reflecting on her own formative experiences as a young painter and photographer in Paris, where she lived from 1962 to early 1969. She moved there to learn etching, but, because of a voracious appetite for learning, she also attended lectures by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosopher Louis Althusser and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France, which may explain the philosophical and anthropological content of her work.
With a title inspired by Fritz Picard’s legendary bookshop Librairie Calligrammes, an astonishingly storied intellectual hangout on the Left Bank, Ottinger’s film explores the cultural scene of that era, and the ever-festering wound that was the Algerian War, which she researched exhaustively in various archives before shooting. “All my French friends had to become soldiers,” she recalled. “There was no chance to step out. Some could become teachers, but not many.
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