Je Tu il Elle (Akerman, 1972): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6.10pm
This screening is part of the Chantal Akerman season at BFI. The digital restoration also screens on February 15th and 21st. Full details here. Tonight’s screening will include an extended intro by Melanie Iredale, Director of Reclaim The Frame.
Chicago Reader review of Je Tu il Elle:
Chantal Akerman directed and plays the lead in this early (1974) black-and-white feature that charts three successive stages of its heroine's love life. In the first part she lives like a hermit, eating only sugar, compulsively rearranging the furniture in her one-room flat, and apparently writing and rewriting a love letter; in part two she hitches a ride with a truck driver and eventually gives him a hand job; in part three she arrives at the home of her female lover, and they proceed to make frantic love. This is every bit as obsessive and as eerie as Akerman's later Jeanne Dielman and Toute une nuit, though not as striking on a visual level; as in all her best work, however, the minimalist structure is both potent and haunting.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is an extract.
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