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‘Elle entend pas la moto’ Earns Praise as a 25-Year Portrait of Deafness and Care

Libération hails Dominique Fischbach’s long-term study of one family’s life with deafness, assembled from decades of intimate footage.

Overview

  • Libération published a positive review on December 10, 2025, calling the film rare and delicate while cautioning it could be overlooked.
  • Director Dominique Fischbach follows a single family across roughly twenty-five years, beginning when Manon was 11.
  • Two of the three siblings, Manon and Max, were born deaf, and the film traces arduous efforts toward oral language through therapy, surgeries and implants.
  • The documentary revisits the family’s mourning for Max using archival images and notes a striking resemblance between him and Manon’s hearing son, Mathéo.
  • A final shoot sought to convene a meeting across spoken and signed communication, though the elder sister, Barbara, chose not to take part.