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Simone Weil: an important cultural figure, leading light of a philosophy that an inceasing number of people wish to explore. An exceptional character, forerunner of a radical lifestyle that can fascinate the young and interpret the contradictions of our time. For the first time onscreen, a woman who seizes feminine sensibility and expresses it through the authenticity of her deepest feelings.
"People called her a mystic, a secular saint, or just plain saint... crazy, anorexic... even during her lifetime she was laughed at for her strange attire, her eternal cape, those oversized glasses, her studied unattractiveness, proverbial clumsiness... Not one of the usual stigmata used to ridicule women with a mind was spared Simone Weil... And indeed, she was to become one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century had her life not been cut down at only 34 years of age..." LE MONDE
"Simone Weil was light, courage, the force of intelligence,
commitment, a great thinker completely immersed in life..." LAURE ADLER, journalist and author of "L'INSOUMISE"
"a woman of genius, a kind of genius akin to saints..." T.S. ELIOT
"An exceptional woman, become 'cult', her categorical opinions, excesses, impassioned thirst for truth, her scathing irony, sarcasm sometimes too, but also the gentleness of her natural authority, all of these qualities
charmed people just as much as they disturbed, irritated, outraged. For some, she was their guiding light... Gifted
with a formidable appetite for knowledge... no field – philosophy, politics, history, science, religion, art,
languages, social issues – escaped her penetrating mind". SYLVIE COURTINE DENAMY author of "SIMONE WEIL: la quete de racines célestes"
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