Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Drama
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1976
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A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
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Runtime:
202 min
Release date:
21 Jan 1976
Country:
BE, FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$120,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Jeanne Dielman is immersion cinema, a brilliant example of maximal minimalism that fuses viewer with subject so profoundly, the marathon experience transcends simple spectatorship.
– Stephen Garrett,
Time Out New York,
21 Jan 2009
fresh:
Jeanne Dielman deals in unadorned facts. It's about the looks and sounds of ordinary things and people, which it records with such... unsettling clarity that it has the effect of finding threats in mundane objects and doom in [the] commonplace.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
15 Jan 2005
fresh:
Akerman forges a major statement, not only in a feminist context but also in a way that tells us something about the lives we all live.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
17 Jun 2003
fresh:
Chantal Akerman's feature is one of the few 'feminist' movies that's as interesting aesthetically as politically.
– ,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006