Sortie le 12 novembre 2014. The life of Marie Heurtin (1885-1921), often called the "French Helen Keller," is dramatized in this joyous film, directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris. Her photograph shows you a fine, stout girl with masculine features, hair cut short, and eyes that seem to see. Marie Heurtin is a fourteen year old deaf and blind girl who can not communicate with the outside world. "I needed to understand how it worked. Incapable of communicating, by age 14 a doctor advised her parents to commit her to an asylum. Incapable of communicating, by age 14 a doctor advised her … For me, making films is a way to go to places I probably wouldn't go and to meet people I would probably never meet if I were not a film-maker. She has a slightly mischievous smile. It's something Ameris is used to doing and relishes. Marie Heurtin was a real person, born in 1885; Helen Keller was born in 1880. For more go to nziff.co.nzIn Ameris' film, the institute's mother superior is sceptical that Marie can be taught to communicate. Despite the fact she is blind and deaf, she manages to open up the world to herself. Normally these places have a lot of suffering, but I go there to try to understand where this suffering comes from and then try to tell a story. It is based on the true story of Marie Heurtin (1885-1921), a girl who was born deaf and blind in late 19th century France. I was 14 at the time. Desperate to find a connection with Marie and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send her to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls.
MARIE’S STORY is based on real life events that took place in France in the late 19th century. Marie’s Story (French: Marie Heurtin) is a 2014 French biographical film directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and written by Améris and Philippe Blasband. In late 19th century France, Marie Heurtin (Ariana Rivoire) was born deaf and blind.
But under the wing of a young nun Sister Marguerite (Isabelle Carre), Marie opens up and begins to learn.
"I discovered Keller during adolescence. "It's been extraordinary for me to see and witness the moment that spark goes off - when they do understand that being in the world means needing to learn a language and then start learning it. It allowed her to be a mother and a nun normally never experiences motherhood. Born deaf and blind and wholly unable to connect to the world around her, by the age of 14, Marie (portrayed by deaf actress Ariana Rivoire) is a feral creature, prone to wild outbursts. It was essential for me to go there and I was absolutely astonished to discover that these blind and deaf children dance, do sport, they go to the movies, they work.
Marie's Story (French: Marie Heurtin) is a 2014 French biographical film directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and written by Améris and Philippe Blasband. Instead, her father takes Marie to the Larnay Institute near Poitiers in central France where young death women are cared by nuns.Ameris says his visits reminded him of what attracted him to Keller's story and later Marie's - their hope and courageAmeris says the institute was no longer run by nuns, but he visited it many times over seven years, with most of his visits over a three year period, as he worked on the script. "Ameris, who co-wrote the screenplay with Philippe Blasband, learned that the Larnay Institute still existed, so paid it a visit. For his earlier films, he's visited a prison, a centre for the terminally ill and went to Calais to meet illegal immigrants.Marie's Story screens in the New Zealand International Film Festival in Auckland on July 18 and July 20 and in Wellington on July 25, 27, 28 and 30.