| Simone Weil lived in a time when the world appeared headed for destruction: fascism was on the rise in Germany, Stalin was betraying the communist dream, and there was a global economic depression. Could anything be done to change the course of history?
An idealistic and intellectually brilliant French woman named Simone Weil was determined to find out. From working on an assembly line to challenging Stalin’s communism, from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War to a chapel in Assisi, thinker, activist, and mystic, Simone Weil searched for the roots of human suffering and fought against social injustice. By the time of her controversial death at 34, spirituality had become central to her ideas about what an ethical society needs. Her writings, collected in such books as A Need for Roots and Oppression & Liberty, have influenced many, including French writer Albert Camus who spent an hour meditating in her room before flying to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize. .A Work-in-Progress Length: 45/90 minute versions IFP Independent Film Week 2008, 2009. IFP Documentary Lab 2009. |
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