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One of the most important films of the 70’s, Chantal Akerman’s “laying bare of grim reality”. A woman filmmaker floats around Europe while having encounters with several people, both strangers and intimate relations, that reveal her as a catalyst for commitment. Aurore Clement plays Anna in this minimalist experiment that is perhaps the most accessible […] |
Chantal Akerman
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Taking a cue from the early work of Godard, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman created Jeanne Dielman as a feminist assault on narrative filmmaking conventions. Rhythmic, minimalist and monotonous, Akerman’s style perfectly frames the tedious daily tasks of Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), a widow and mother on the brink of collapse. In a lengthy film where […] |
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An early experimental feature by Chantal Akerman that juxtaposes images of New York City with the texts of letters written to Akerman by her mother in Belgium and read aloud offscreen by Akerman. “Most simply described, the film is a portrait of Manhattan in which a generally static camera presents a succession of geometrically framed […] |