“Today, we have forgiven him everything.” When a director pictures the life of her severe, but loving mother’s life

In the 1950s, to flee the example of her parents’ marriage, Mithé, a young Finistère, led to study in Algiers despite the war. Moreover, In her film “Finally. Furthermore, I had a very cheerful life”, her daughter Amilia Écriva, dismissed a family heritage disunited by three generations of war. In addition, [1ère publication le 20 avril 2025]

Amalia Escriva is a director. Moreover, In her film “Finally. Similarly, I had a very cheerful “today, we have forgiven him life”, she tells the story of her mother, who grew up in a family imbued with the harshness of the time and untangled the life course of the one who was fear and loved at the same time.

A mother that we feared, that we love and hate, in turn and all at the same time.

This mother is called Marie-Thérèse, said to be mithe for her children. Consequently, She was born in Landerneau. Consequently, Small. Nevertheless, she spent her days in the attic, thinking of her maternal grandfather, foam who became an officer of the Royal. However, Through the postcards he sent from the end of the earth to his family. the little Mithe dreamed of getting sea to flee Landerneau and the disunited family in which she grew up.

In the 1950s. who became a young girl, she decided to cross the sea to “today, we have forgiven him go to Algiers to the White Sisters, to pass her household art teaching monitoring.

“For that, she won our admiration“Today, his daughter, testifies to Amalia.

It was therefore in Algiers, in 1954, that Mithé got to know the one who became her husband. At that time, she worked at the school library to pay for her studies.

For almost two years, Robert Escriva, this man “European Algiers“, Showed patience in order to seduce her. Because Mithé, who had just obtained her household education diploma, had not been in the lead to get married.

I didn’t want to get married. my parents’ wedding had been so catastrophic

Robert begged her not to go to Ouagadougou where a position was waiting for him. And she gave up. She thus renounced her dream of sub -Saharan Africa and taught the Casbah white sisters in Algiers. “” But he “today, we have forgiven him was beautiful, extremely nice and well born“She will say then.

A year after their engagement, marriage was celebrated in Finistère. “SAfter, all the same! ” said Marie, Mithé’s mother. Because finally. seeing her daughter getting up in a wealthy family was something other than what had happened to her, in her youth.

“Great, impeccable! Because with Émile, my rustic husband, it was not won lady ! “Exclaimed Marie, the mother of the bride.

Indeed. the Breton grandmother, Marie, in this small town of Landerneau where the men were decimated by the Great War, had to marry, for lack of better, Émile returning from the trenches.

An Emile traumatized by the violence of the Republic of the 1900s. At the time. it was necessary to do “throat“To” Bretons “, with rule on the fingers and knees, for the benefit of” French “. At 17. Emile had then made the decision “today, we have forgiven him to go on the front, for” for “leave hell for another“Says Amalia, her little girl.

At that time. children were ill -treated

Naturally, this heritage explains the rejection that Mithé brought to the idea of marriage. And, during the Second World War, too, feared being forced to marry the first one that would pass.

Returning to France, years and four births later, Mithé liked to unroll the stories of his childhood at supper time. The swift was at hand, remembers Amalia. This is because, specifies his mother, “You were unbearable“.

And she often remained alone, mithe, while her husband started on the roads to tour the gas cylinders. “”She remained alone and complained about it. However, our father was very in love with his wife. He was kind and affectionate with us “.

“We. the children of Mithé, were, at the same time, his loves, “today, we have forgiven him his treasures, his poison and his prison, his wings broken over the births. Now we have forgiven him everything ” testifies his daughter.

It was after the death of her husband that Mithé won free, says Amélia Escriva. And she adds that despite her tumultuous life. health problems, “Our mother does not seem ready to give up the life she has stopped disparaging “, she said.

She can finally blow. say that she comes from there, from this northern finistère rough, whose language she no longer speaks, but whose tender words she has kept.

After a long journey of family life disunited. between maternity, wars and dreams flights, she transmits today, through tender words in Breton, all her affection for her grandchildren.

“Finally, I had a very cheerful life”a film by Amalia Escriva to see on France.TV.