Jeanne dielman

“Chantal Akerman on her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions…

Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker who introduced a previously unseen female perspective on domesticity to cinema, and whose video installations dealt with personal histories, died sometime dur…

The director, who died in October, was an enormous influence on many filmmakers and is the subject of a new documentary.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman. 1975. #70s

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman

In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, _Je tu il elle_ is Akerman’s most sexually audacious film.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman (1975)