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HOMAGE, CHANTAL AKERMAN
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels
Director
Chantal Akerman
Producers
Alain Dahan
Corinne Jénart
Guy Cavagnac
Liliane de Kermadec
Cinematographer
Babette Mangolte
Editor
Patricia Canino
Sound
Alain Marchall
Contact
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1975
France, Belgium
200 min
Color
In January 1976 Le Monde heralded Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as “the first masterpiece in the feminine in the history of the cinema”. The unconventional style (frontally centred images, elliptical and disjunctive editing) and subject (a woman’s alienation from her daily routine as a housewife and involvement in a discrete form of prostitution that leads her to murder) made the film a powerful sign of a decade when feminism erupted into the arena of politics and film.
Director
A Belgian filmmaker born in Brussels, Chantal Akerman studied at INSAS (Institut supérieur des Arts, du
Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion) before emigrating to New York. She has made documentaries
such as Hôtel Monterey (1972), News From Home (1977) and Down There (2006) nominated for a César
as well as fiction films including Jeanne Dielmann 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), A Couch
in New York (1996), The Captive (2000) and Almayer’s Folly (2011).
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