PARIS MEMORIES Intro | TIFF 2022

The team behind PARIS MEMORIES in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. A piercing examination of what it means to live through devastating violence, the latest from Festival regular Alice Winocour brilliantly dramatizes the way trauma can render our fragments of memory into a puzzle. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . Anchored by a captivating lead performance by Virginie Efira, so stellar in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, Paris Memories tells a powerful story of what it means to survive and be transformed by shocking violence. Festival regular Alice Winocour (Proxima, Disorder, Augustine) delivers another rich portrait of a woman confronting crisis. Mia (Efira, also at the Festival in Other People’s Children) is a professional translator and inveterate observer. In her work and on her motorcycle trips through Paris, we see and hear the beautiful city of lights thro