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Bookmark this pageJeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Director: Chantal Anne Akerman
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From Time Out Film Guide
Chantal Akerman's feature is one of the few 'feminist' movies that's as interesting aesthetically as politically. It covers three days in the life of a bourgeois widow who supports herself and her somewhat moronic son by taking in a 'gentleman caller' each afternoon. Much of the film simply chronicles her ritualised routine, but does it in an ultra-minimal, precise style that emphasises the artifice of the whole thing...and gradually the artifice (coupled with the fact that Delphine Seyrig plays the woman) shifts the plot into melodrama, so that the film becomes a bourgeois tragedy.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Chantal Anne Akerman
Producer: Evelyne Paul, Corinne Jenart
Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical full cast
Duration: 225 mins
US Release: Jan 21 1976
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