Hélène Lapiower
Hélène Lapiower (1957-2002) is a Belgian actress. After studying at the National Theatre of Strasbourg, she performed in theatre and film and moved to Paris. She acted in Souvenir de Juan-Les-Pins by Pascale Ferran (1983), My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument by Arnaud Desplechin (1996), Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis (2001) and Yolande Zauberman's The War in Paris (2002). Hélène Lapiower's parents, who were Polish Jewish proletarians, emigrated to Belgium before World War II. In 1999, she decided to make a documentary about her family and the difficulty of assuming the Jewish cultural heritage, entitled A Little Family Conversation.
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A Little Family Conversation
The actress-director filmed her family for seven years. "When I started filming my family, I wanted to collect images of my own world, which seemed to be slipping through my fingers. A small Jewish world, disappearing." Between Belgium and the United States, in Yiddish, English or French, she gathers the words of a family that bears the terrible weight of history on a daily basis.
A Little Family Conversation
The actress-director filmed her family for seven years. "When I started filming my family, I wanted to collect images of my own world, which seemed to be slipping through my fingers. A small Jewish world, disappearing." Between Belgium and the United States, in Yiddish, English or French, she gathers the words of a family that bears the terrible weight of history on a daily basis.
