JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 10180 BRUXELLES
Voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics’ poll, Chantal Akerman’s chamber epic is a key entry in her prolific body of work. A ‘love film’ for Akerman’s mother – a Holocaust survivor who could never discuss her past with her daughter – and a revolution in 201 minutes. A film about women’s overlooked everyday lives (‘the lowest in the hierarchy of film images,’ Akeman noted). A film that upends epic cinema. A film about a housewife obsessed with her daily routine in order to suppress anxiety. A film about psychology but with little emotion. A film made with a mostly female crew that transformed European art cinema’s most glamorous star, Delphine Seyrig, into a seemingly unremarkable single mother. But above all, a revolutionary film due to Akerman’s treatment of time and space. To watch Jeanne Dielman is to submit to Akerman’s unrelenting gaze and to be trapped with Jeanne: ‘to have the physical experience of time unfolding inside you, of time entering you’. A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.PT3H22M152025-02-22Delphine Seyrig
Chantal Akerman
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 10180 BRUXELLES"JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 10180 BRUXELLES"Showtimes
February 22, 1:00 pm
February 23, 3:30 pm
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