World Cinema Classics: Sight & Sound Critics Top 5

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES

Directed by Chantal Akerman

France, 1975, 3h 21min, DCP, In French with English Subtitles

World Cinema Classics  Sight & Sound Critics Top 5

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#1 on the Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll

Chantal Akerman’s spare and minimal masterpiece shows us three days in the life of Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), a widowed housewife who cooks, cleans, shops and performs sex work to support herself and her son until a deviation from the routine produces a tragic result.

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