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An encounter with Simone Weil [videorecording] / Line Street Productions ; written, directed and produced by Julia Haslett.

Contributor Broukhim, Soraya.

Edition Statement:Director's cut [long version].

Imprint:New York : Line Street Productions, [2012], c2011.

Description1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.

Note:Title from opening frames and container.

Note:What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French Philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family, her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others.

Note : PerformerSoraya Broukhim.

System Details NotesDigital video disc.

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Contributor
Broukhim, Soraya.
Haslett, Julia.
Galvagno, Fabriza.
Grunning Harris, Klara.
Cullen, Enrico.
Torres, Cordova, Thomas.
Davis, Daniel Thomas.
Line Street Productions (Firm)
Series Statement
Buhl Library Video Collection
Subject:
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.
Subject:
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.