
2025
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.

Noémie Merlant
Narrator & Voice over

Simone de Beauvoir
Self (Archive footage)

Kellie Carter Jackson
Self

Laure Murat
Self

Marsha Colson
Self

Silvia Federici
Self

Judith Butler
Self

Epli
Self

Austin Ochoa
Self

Françoise Vergès
Self

Caitlin Keliiaa
Self

Anne MacNeil
Self

Krystal Kurley
Self

Ro Tamayo
Self

Maharajah of the Road

Les yeux dans les Bleus

Cormac McCarthy's Veer

TINA

Giscard, l'impossible retour

The King Without a Crown

Muerte al invasor

Defiance - Three Women And The Vote.

Afrique-France : le divorce ?

The Bowmakers

Love American Skin

Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street

Bleues

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Un racisme à peine voilé

Flying Supersonic

Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national

Concode, an Epic Saga

Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

TGV, la réussite française