Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

AFG presents at the Club (AKUMB, 40 Tumanyan Str.)
CHANTAL AKERMAN IN THE SEVENTIES

* Programs are free of charge, but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.
* Films are screened in original language with English subtitles.
* Special thanks to Lucie Abdalian (USA) for donation of DVDs .

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 20:00
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
1975, Belgium / France, 201 min, Drama, DVD
Director: Chantal Akerman (as Chantal Anne Akerman)
Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

CHANTAL AKERMAN IN THE SEVENTIES
Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these seven films pushed boundaries in their day and continue to have a profound influence on filmmakers all over the world.