The Meetings of Anna (1978) by Chantal Akerman

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 29, 2016 at 20:00
LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (The Meetings of Anna)
1978, France / Belgium / Germany, R, 127 min, Drama, DVD
Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël
In one of Akerman’s most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers - we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.

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.