Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

#1 on the Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

Belgium / France. In French with English subtitles.

Runtime
3h 21m
Year
1975
Director
Chantal Akerman
Format
2D Digital
Country
fr
Language
In French with English subtitles
Categories
  • Assisted Listening