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Bookmark this pageLes Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
Director: Chantal Akerman
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From Time Out Film Guide
A quietly moving odyssey: an itinerary of train journeys, hotel rooms, and chance meetings that relates the past to a present lack of confidence among Europeans. A series of train rides, a series of tales. Only once do film and central character overcome their emotional reticence: when Anna (hitherto a passive listener), in a scene both surprising and logical, lies in bed with her mother and 'confesses' her love for another woman. A chaste refusal to supply easy answers means that the film is primarily descriptive; what emerges most strongly is a moving eroticism stemming from the everyday.Author: HM
Cast & crew
Director: Chantal Akerman
Producer: Alain Dahan
Cast: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Lea Massari, Hanns Zischler, Jean-Pierre Cassel full cast
Duration: 127 mins
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