Penelope, My Love - Now Streaming on Docuseek
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Penelope, My Love
88 min. | Subtitled
A film by Claire Doyon
"Doyon’s deeply generous work...embraces the beauty of difference."
MoMA Doc Fortnight
For 18 years, director Claire Doyon filmed Pénélope, her daughter with autism. Composed of DV tapes, Super 8 reels and HD archives, Penelope, My Love traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence. Narrating her own images allows Doyon to craft a frank and vulnerable study of maternal love within the labyrinth of medical care.

This body of Pénélope, and a fortiori this body of the autistic person in social space, what place does it occupy and what place do we give it? What land can cinema invent to design a hospitable space, dream of a world allowing the invisible to become visible? Pénélope keeps cheering for what she is, Doyon keeps questioning who she is. The answer to the question is precisely in this endless quest. Everything is mirrored to Doyon. So, isn’t it Pénélope who in turn tells Doyon who she is?
Penelope, My Love, from Lightdox, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.

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