‘Who’s Afraid of Julia Kristeva?’ + Q&A with Julia Kristeva
Iskra Angelova | 2017 | Bulgaria | 83 | French w/ English sub-titles
21st March, 18.00, University of London Institute in Paris, 11 Rue de Constantine, 75007
1966. Bulgaria is still behind the Iron Curtain. Julia Kristeva – a young and smart student – goes to Paris on a scholarship from the French government. There she finds herself among the cream of the French intelligentsia, where she meets the leader of the movement Tel Quel, Philippe Sollers. The two instantly fall in love and marry. She begins to work with Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Lucien Goldmann, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan. Iskra Angelova’s film tells the story of a successful and controversial figure – psychoanalyst, linguist, semiotician, philosopher and feminist.
+ Q&A with Julia Kristeva