Annette, ein Heldinnenepos

A portrait of real-life French heroine Anne Beaumanoir and what it means to have the natural instinct to help the oppressed and to fight against the oppressors. We follow her path into the resistance, first against the German occupation in WWII, and then in support of Algeria's fight for independence from colonial France. The narration moves in the style of a epic, tracking her actions, interactions, locations without ever lingering in a moment. I quite enjoyed it at the beginning, and I think it works quite well, but towards the end it felt a bit too much like spooling-off an exhaustive list of events, people and connections. Still, quite the life.