Film screening and discussion: Fanny’s Dream

As part of its exhibition *Heroes, Heroines: A User’s Guide*, the Musée de la Grande Ardenne invites you to a film screening and discussion of *Le Rêve de Fanny*, in the company of the director Jean-Christophe Yu.

“Jeanne, Paul – ordinary people who become extraordinary. History – with a capital H – they were among those who shaped it. They form a link between the revolutionary surrealists of the 1920s, the activists of the 1930s, the defenders of Republican Spain, the Resistance fighters of the Second World War, the victims of the concentration camps, the founders of the National Insurance Scheme, the peace activists, the pioneers of pain-free childbirth, the liberation movements that took place across the world after 1945, as well as the artists and other creators and inventors of ‘New Forms’.

Fanny, my mother, their daughter, looks upon all this with tenderness and dreams of a world freed from its chains. And so I, too, dream of this, having inherited a heroic history and feeling indebted to the fighters of times gone by.”