News from Home (Akerman, 1977): Prince Charles Cinema, 3.45pm
This presentation is part of a short Chantal Akerman season (details here) and is also being screened on July 24th (information here).
Time Out review:
Chantal Akerman explores the disjunction between European myths about New York -
with its monumental cityscapes and cinematic glamour - and the reality,
a place of hopeless ghettos and monotonous suburbs. In counterpoint to
cinema-photographer Babette Mangolte's powerful images of the city, the
soundtrack consists of banal letters from a petit bourgeois Belgian
mother to her daughter in New York. A considerable contribution to the
hinterland area between narrative cinema and the avant-garde.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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