Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

xx ENCOUNTER WITH CHANTAL AKERMAN

Belgium/France / 1975 / 201'
Film

One of the most important thematic and formal
milestones in the history of film chronicles three
days in the life of a housewife who also works at as a
prostitute at home. The camera is focused on Jeanne
the same way she is focused on the housework,
capturing every moment of her daily routine:
dressing, washing dishes, making meatloaf… By
slowing down the pace she makes the viewer watch
empty time intervals and spaces that film normally
skips. With atypical representations of time and
space, static, frontal compositions that depict life
in real time, Chantal Akerman argues that rigidly
structured everyday life provides a guarantee for
an untroubled life, thus home as a place of sexual
repression and financial exploitation.

In French with English subtitles.

Tickets: € 4 (ticket is valid also for the film Blow Up My Town)

Organisation: Slovenian Cinematheque and City of Women.
The screenings were made possible by Cinémathèque Royale de
Belgique, for which we are most grateful.