La Pieuvre
Lætitia Carton
2009 - 89 min - DV Cam - Couleur - France

In Laetitia’s family, you learn how to grow and live with a genetic neurodegenerative disease, Huntington’s disease, which gradually deprives you of all your faculties. A disease that sets in slowly, at any age, before killing you. The director grew up with the fear of this sickness. There now exists a test to know if she is a carrier of the gene. A 50/50 chance. "Private" diary of this long "presymptomatic" test.
This is not a film about illness, it tells the story of a struggle between a family and a terrifying, perverse and multiform enemy she nicknames the octopus.

Famille | Maladie


Author-Director : Lætitia Carton
Photography : François-Xavier Drouet, Lætitia Carton
Sound : Lætitia Carton, François-Xavier Drouet
Editing : Julien Chigot
Delegate Producer : Idéale Audience
Broadcasting Co-producer : France Télévisions
Contribution : Région Auvergne, Région Limousin, Procirep, CNC, Angoa-Agicoa

Distribution


Distributor : Doc & Film International
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

2011 - RISC-Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, Marseille (France) : Sélection
2010 - FIPA (Festival international de programmes audiovisuels), Biarritz (France) : Sélection Documentaires de création et essais
2010 - Traces de Vies, Clermont-Ferrand (France) : Sélection
2010 - Images en bibliothèques, Paris (France) : Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques