Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d'Anna
(The Meetings of Anna) is a 1978 French-Belgian-West German film.
Nothing happens. Nothing major happens,
except one begins to realize that life is bits and pieces of micro incidents,
sprinkled with emptiness and meaninglessness, that adds up to macro
existentialist crisis.
Life offers a plethora of choices. You
choose one or some of them, you reject or deny some, you yearn for some other
choices or you are yet to know what to choose. At the end, whatever you choose,
(or don’t choose) - you come to terms with the futility of it all.
It’s an appropriate existentialist movie
for loners, people who are comfortable with their lonesomeness. They can relate
to this work better than the socialites.
To ease perhaps some music like Don
Giovanni’s K527 Sinfonia by Mozart was added, so that the viewer might cheer
up.
For others – Stay away!
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