After familiarizing herself with films such as Danielle Arbid′s Passion Simple (2020) and Audrey Diwan′s L′Evenement (2021), famous novelist Annie Ernaux began to create autobiographical documentaries. This time she collaborates with her son, David. Featuring footage filmed by her ex-husband, Philippe Ernaux with the family’s Super 8 camera, and a voice-over narration by Annie Ernaux herself, the film unfolds in the years between 1972 and 1981, looking back at a decade in the life of a French family. Ernaux describes her film as ‘not only an archive of a family, but a testament to leisure life, lifestyle, and dreams of the middle class for ten years since 1968.’ As vacations and moving houses continue, children grow up and her position as a novelist becomes solid, but she becomes distant from one person who should be close to her. If you are curious about a family′s intimate story or want to understand Ernaux′s world of artworks profoundly, you should watch The Super 8 Years. (SEO Seunghee)