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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ()

directed by Chantal Akerman
featuring Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Chantal Akerman, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman
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A classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's marathon dissection of the life of Belgian housewife/mother/prostitute Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) stays on the surface of the details of Jeanne's humdrum daily life, as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary of an ordinary life, in the tradition of Agnès Varda's earlier New Wave landmark, Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961). Jeanne feeds her son, fixes potatoes, does the marketing, entertains gentlemen -- but things slowly, almost imperceptibly ...

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