201 mins |
Rated
TBC
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical
(Chantal Akerman, 1975, 202 min) In 2022, For the first time in 70 years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound poll, released every decade, was topped by Jeanne Dielman, a film directed by a woman, Chantal Akerman.
“While it has brought [avant garde] tradition to the top of the list, Jeanne Dielman is inescapably a woman’s film, consciously feminist in its turn to the avant garde. On the side of content, the film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time prostitute over the course of three days; on the side of form, it rigorously records her domestic routine in extended time and from a fixed camera position. In a film that, agonisingly, depicts women’s oppression, Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force.”
- Laura Mulvey, Sight and Sound
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(Chantal Akerman, 1975, 202 min) In 2022, For the first time in 70 years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound poll, released every decade, was topped by Jeanne Dielman, a film directed by a woman, Chantal Akerman.
“While it has brought [avant garde] tradition to the top of the list, Jeanne Dielman is inescapably a woman’s film, consciously feminist in its turn to the avant garde. On the side of content, the film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time prostitute over the course of three days; on the side of form, it rigorously records her domestic routine in extended time and from a fixed camera position. In a film that, agonisingly, depicts women’s oppression, Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force.”
- Laura Mulvey, Sight and Sound
