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The artist Marion Cruza has curated a series of ten films by Chantal Akerman that will be screened throughout January, February and March. In this third sessión of the series participants will watch Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles  (1975).

“Radical narrative, obsessive description, real time, without field-counterfield . Rituals, order and a widowed mother of a teenager who’s got a job.
Chantal Akerman wrote the draft for this movie as if it were a book rather than a script. She wrote down every detail meticulously: breaded fillets, money in the bowl, a cup of coffee … Akerman directed the actress Delphine Seyrig, whose image was strongly linked to the glamor of Marienbad and Indian Song, presenting her as a housewife.”. Marion Cruza

‘Je me retournais dans mon lit, inquiète. Et brusquement, en une seule minute, j’ai tout vu Jeanne Dielman…”. Autoportrait en cinéaste, Chantal Akerman, 2002.

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quay du commerce, 1080, Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1975, 225 min. OST

Director: Chantal Akerman

Screen: Chantal Akerman, Alain Plagne

Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck

Production: Guy Cavagnac, Alain Dahan

Edition: Patricia Canino

Cinematography: Babette Mangolte