Cœur des femmes, from srteet to life
There are more and more homeless women today. They experience the greatest of difficulties when attempting to reintegrate society.
15 years ago, Mona Chasserio chose to radically change her life and founded “Coeur de femmes” in Paris, an organization which invented a new and original means of helping these women.
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)DocumentaryGenre en anglaisSociety & EconomyDirected by Véronique Bonnet-NoraSupported by CNC, Procirep-Angoa Distributed by ADAV, Artline FilmsYear2007Duration52min
“Cœur des femmes” offers a roof over one’s head, hot meal, and above all an ability to listen to women who often know drug addiction, prostitution, violence and family break ups. These women frequently come from the street, hospital or jail.
Every woman contributes to collective life at the home, and finds there psychological, medical social and judicial supervision. Every woman participates in workshops such as French lessons, singing, sports, theatre…
Filming in the heart of this extreme destitution and fragility, the director makes the spectator able to feel and understand from the inside, an unsettling reality we brush past every single day.
Press coverage
Through interviews with the support team, the women under care, as well as singer France Gall, the association's patron, and former minister Simone Veil, who supports Mona Chasserio's efforts, the director creates an engaged and sensitive film.
Le Monde
Here is a subject that is uplifting because it does not approach social misery with a tearful tone, from the angle of failure and despair (...) Documentarian Véronique Bonnet-Nora highlights this mission with sobriety and effectiveness, showcasing an intelligent, highly controlled, and truly essential endeavor. A documentary that warms the heart.
La Libre Belgique
Sober and avoiding the pitfalls of misery and tearfulness, this documentary paints a moving portrait of women trying to resurface by striving to regain their will to live.
Les Inrockuptibles
For a year, Véronique Bonnet-Nota immersed herself in the daily life of an organization that helps women in severe precariousness. A touching chronicle, filled with suffering but also with hope.
Télérama
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