Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Film details
| Film Title | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 202mins |
| Year | 1976 |
| Country | Belgium, France |
| Director | Chantal Akerman |
| Actors | Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical, Chantal Akerman |
| Language | French |
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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering.
★★★★★
Chantal Akerman’s radical 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles turns the term “realism” on its face, exploring the contours of a woman’s life through the mundane routines that never make it into movies.
★★★★★
