SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI) Official Selection

In a darkened movie theater in 1963 Montreal, thirteen-year-old Hanna first discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s VIVRE SA VIE. Fascinated by this character, Hanna finds a certain similarity between Nana and one of her teachers with whom she hopes to develop a special relationship.

Hanna is at a difficult age, striving to become a woman in a household where she comes into conflict with parents who both love and hate one another. Her Jewish father is a man without a country, an unknown poet whose soul is tormented and who finds it ·difficult to express love. Her young Catholic Ouebecoise mother is fragile and overworked. Fortunately, Hanna has an older brother whom she adores, and a single friend who attracts Hanna because she is so different and so sensual.

At the end of this difficult year, Hanna comes to understand the message of the passionate and bewitching Nana. She is free to live her life as she wishes, but with this freedom comes the responsibility to live it well.