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Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Chantal Akerman.

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Criterion Collection, 2009.

Akerman, Chantal -- Interviews.

Prostitution -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 484.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Director-approved special ed.

2 videodiscs (201 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Special features: Disc 1. Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Chantal Akerman ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; Disc 2. "Autour de Jeanne Dielman:" a 69-minute documentary shot by actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and Akerman, made during the filming ; "Chantal Akerman : on Jeanne Dielman" interview with Chantal Akerman ; "Chantal Akerman on filmmaking" exerpted from a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps ; "Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig" segment from the 1976 French television program Les rendez-vous du dimanche where Akerman and Seyrig discuss their work on Jeanne Dielman ; "Babette Mangolte" interview with cinematographer Babette Mangolte ; "Natalia Akerman" interview with Chantal Akerman's mother ; "Saute ma ville" short film directed by and starring Chantal Akerman. PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone Marguilies.

1.66:1 aspect ratio.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Paradise Films et Unité Trois ; direction de la photographie, Babette Mangolte ; director, Chantal Anne Akerman ; writer, Danae Maroulacou ; producers, Evelyne Paul, Corrine Jenart.

Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Yves Bical.

"A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles brilliantly evokes, with meticulous detail and a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow - whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick - just as it begins to break down. In its enormous sparseness, Akerman's film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character portrait 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."--Container.

Feminist films.

Experimental films.

Films français.

Films féministes.

Films éxperimentaux.

Akerman, Chantal.

Seyrig, Delphine, 1932-1990.

Doniol-Valcroze, Jacques.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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