Forewarning: This
film is not for everyone.
Jeanne Dielman, 23,
Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, ["Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels"] is a 1975 film by Belgian
filmmaker Chantal Akerman. [6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015].
She made this film when she was 25 years old. She took the liberty of ending her life when she reached 65.
Her camera works reminds one of Yasujirō Ozu’s ways of making
films.
It’s an epic 3+ hour movie where
one is made to believe that nothing much happens.
It also reminds Michael Heneke’s 1989 debut Austrian film
clearly depicting the drudgery of life and the mundane every day meaningless monotonous
routine work and existence.
The film depicts 3
days of repetitive, almost robotic existence of a lonely middle class widow, who
lives with her teenage son with hardly any communication between them. She does
not allow any space or time to creep into her life so she won’t have to be
anxious or depressed. She cooks, shops, cleans, baths and every afternoon to
sustain, has sex for money.
A thorough existentialist film.
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