BFI Southbank NFT3, 6.10pm
This screening will be introduced by director Carol Morley (The Alcohol Years; Dreams of a Life).
Chicago Reader review:
Chantal Akerman's greatest film--made in 1975 and running 198
minutes--is one of those lucid puzzlers that may drive you up the wall
but will keep you thinking for days or weeks. Delphine Seyrig, in one of
her greatest performances, plays Jeanne Dielman, a Belgian woman
obsessed with performing daily rounds of housework and other routines
(including occasional prostitution) in the flat she occupies with her
teenage son. The film follows three days in Dielman's regulated life,
and Akerman's intense concentration on her daily
activities--monumentalized by Babette Mangolte's superb cinematography
and mainly frontal camera setups--eventually sensitizes us to the small
ways in which her system is breaking down. By placing so much emphasis
on aspects of life and work that other films routinely omit, mystify, or
skirt over, Akerman forges a major statement, not only in a feminist
context but also in a way that tells us something about the lives we all
live. Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here is an extract.
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