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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Directed by Chantal Akerman1975Belgium/France202 mins

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 one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

Short films showing in this film:

J’ai faim, j’ai froid

12 mins

The short classical film of Chantal Akerman, describes two girls in Brussels who run away from home. They chain smoke and obsessively repeat the words: “I’m hungry, I’m cold”. What does fate have in store for two young penniless women in the big city?

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Director
Chantal Akerman
Year
1975
Country
Belgium, France
Running Time
202 mins
Language
French
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