This is the diary which the French philosopher Simone Weil kept when, as a twenty-five-year-old, she took a one-year sabbatical from school and her studies and worked in a Parisian factory from December 4, 1934 until August 1935, running the presses at the Alsthom electric company. This experience formed the basis for her book La condition ouvrière. The written chronicle of her days is visually accompanied by a continuous flow of dark rooms and the urban landscape of Île Seguin (suburbs south of Paris), paying particular attention to construction sites and factories.
Simone Weil
Writer
Fabrizio Ferraro
Director, Writer
Claudia Landi
Giovanna Giuliani
Natacha Eychenne
Kamal Boukarass
Marco Teti
Ilaria Tramacere
Thought Crimes62%
I Want to Return Return Return67%
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown72%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
McQueen74%
McCullin76%
American Anarchist63%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
Gilbert67%
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library64%
We Live in Public68%
Public Speaking70%
Heart of a Dog65%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin69%
Directed by John Ford70%
Brother's Keeper70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Champs63%
Hawking76%
