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Chantal Akerman is a filmmaker whose work gives new meaning to the term "independent film". Strong themes in her films include women at work and at home, women's relationships to men, women, and children, food, love, sex, romance, art, and storytelling. She enrolled in the Belgian film school, INSAS, but quit after two years, finding herself understandably more interested in making films than in sitting in a classroom.
Hotel Monterey
Belgium 1972 / Silent / 60 min
Movie without a storyline : In the first of Akerman's longer feature films the camera becomes the actress who, with extended takes and tracking-shots, is moved through the empty spaces of the New York hotel of the same name-creating an architectural study likewise a psychic space.
DVD FEATURESFullframe VersionMono Audio
Je tu il elle
Belgium, France 1975 / 82 min / Cast : Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup &
Claire Wauthion
Chantal stars in as well as directs this close-focus study of two days in a woman's life. Her use of sparse lighting, black and white film,long scenes, and narration leave the impression that one has watched a low budget documentary. The story is centered around a lonely woman's creative struggles and her emotional distance from most people she encounters.
DVD FEATURESFullframe VersionFrench audioOptional English and Dutch subtitles
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (2 DVDs)
Belgium, France 1975 / 193 min / Cast : Delphine Seyrig & Jan Decorte
Jeanne Dielman, a young widow, lives with her son Sylvain following an immutable order: While the boy is in school she cares for the flat and receives her clients in the afternoon.
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFrench audioOptional English and Dutch subtitles
Interview with Chantal Akerman (French with optional English and Dutch subtitles)
Behind the scenes (French with optional English and Dutch subtitles)
News from home
Belgium, France 1976 / 85 min
News from Home is a free-form drama that offers slices from a French woman's life as she attempts to make a living in New York City. The stories unfold as a young filmmaker back in France reads the letters her mother has sent to her from the Big Apple.
DVD FEATURESFullframe VersionFrench audioOptional English and Dutch subtitles
Short films: Saute ma ville - 1968 (Optional English and Dutch subtitles) * La chambre - 1972 (Silent)
Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Belgium, France 1978 / 122 min / Cast : Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem,
Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler & Jean-Pierre Cassel
An independent woman film-maker journeys through Germany, Belgium, and France, meeting a stream of friends, lovers, relatives, and strangers, and passing through alienating landscapes of anonymous hotel rooms, train stations, and cinemas.
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFrench audioOptional English and Dutch subtitles
3 interviews about Chantal Akerman (French with optional English and Dutch subtitles)
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