 | MOVIE #1,655 •🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿• 05.23.24 ALBERT & AKERMAN: AN AUTEURIST STUDY IN CONTRAST + CONTINUUM Is it all downhill from here? Chantal Akerman’s seventh film is widely considered her best. How good? Well, it topped the most recent Sight & Sound poll for best movie of all-time, the list which is (in the eyes of many a film nerd) as close to gospel as it gets. Of course, this selection was met with the typical amount of culture-wars adjacent moaning (“It’s a good flick, but it’s only #1 because she’s a woman” —random filmbro and/or Paul Schrader). Because of this ascension, it feels almost impossible to honestly assess in a way. Personally, I always try to give a film (ANY film) a fair shake, whether it’s ‘bottom of the barrel’ VOD garbage or ‘made in a lab’ film school fodder (I, like my friend Marty, only draw the line at Marvel). So, getting right to it: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is a great movie, as close to the quintessential slow cinema ideal as they come. It’s a classic. |
I’m sure this has been analyzed to death, so in lieu of adding anything further to the conversation (any conversation), I just want to post the entire movie here sped up by over 8,000% so that it’s short enough to post on social media…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (French pronunciation: [ʒan dilman vɛ̃ntʁwɑ ke dy kɔmeʁs milkatʁəvɛ̃ bʁysɛl], "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels") is a 1975 film written and directed by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. It was filmed over five weeks on location in Brussels, and financed through a $120,000 grant awarded by the Belgian government. Distinguished by its restrained pace, long takes, and static camerawork, the film is a slice-of-life depiction of a widowed housewife (portrayed by Delphine Seyrig) over the course of three days. It was released on May 14, 1975.
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