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JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES

• Director: Chantal Akerman
• BELGIUM, FRANCE / 1975 / DCP / Colour / 202’ / French; Turkish,  English s.t.

• Screenplay: Chantal Akerman
• Director of Photography: Babette Mangolte
• Editing: Patricia Canino
• Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
• Producer: Corinne Jénart, Evelyne Paul
• Production Co.: Paradise Films, Unité Trois
• World Sales: Cinematek Belgium

Voted in Sight & Sound’s 2022 critics poll as the ‘greatest film of all time,’ Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is a minimalist, feminist film in a realist vein that has reached cult status over the years. Premiering in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, this is the second feature directed by Chantal Akerman’s, who was only 25 when she made it. Jeanne Dielman shows us what directors generally choose to omit (the recurring details of daily life in real time,) and for three days follows a housewife, a widow who lives with her teenage son, and who prostitutes herself at home in order to make ends meet. According to Criterion, this is ‘one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time.’

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.