No Home Movie (Akerman, 2015): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.45pm
Chicago Reader review:
Chantal Akerman’s final film (2015) shares some formal concerns with her
earlier works; what sets it apart is a stream of love and yearning,
regret and loss, from which painful memories resurface. Akerman (who
died in 2015) said that she prepared for her 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
by closely observing her homemaker mother, Natalia, for decades, and
indeed this 2015 documentary about her mother’s last years reveals an
extraordinarily warm, intimate bond between parent and globe-trotting
daughter. Long takes of the Israeli desert, paralleled with long takes
of empty rooms in Natalia’s apartment, suggest her sense of dislocation
as a Holocaust survivor, a condition she struggles to verbalize in her
kitchen with a daughter who probes for more. The combination of memoir
and abstraction is both cerebral and heartrending.
Andrea Gronvall
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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