Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir (2025)

6.0/10 0 min Documentary

Overview

Published in 1949, The Second Sex became the bible of global feminism. An essential work that passionately advocates for gender equality, women's independence, and the liberation of morals. Today, how does this seminal work continue to resonate in our contemporary world? Conceived as an initiatory journey to the origins of Simone de Beauvoir's thinking, the film The Second Sex: In the Footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir takes us to the United States, to the places that inspired the philosopher and nourished her theories. An American road trip bringing together the worst and the best, predatory capitalism and mad love. A unique reinterpretation in the company of the great thinkers of our century.

Cast

Noémie Merlant

Narrator & Voice over

Simone de Beauvoir

Self (Archive footage)

Laure Murat

Self

Judith Butler

Self

Françoise Vergès

Self

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