Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
- Chantal Akerman
- Chantal Akerman
Rating: 7.4/10 by 295 users
Alternative Title:
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Rue du Commerce - FR
Jeanne Dielman - DE
잔느 딜망 - KR
Жанна Дільман, набережна Коммерс, будинок 23, 1080, Брюссель - UA
Country:
Belgium
France
Language:
Français
Runtime: 03 hour 22 minutes
Budget: $120,000
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: widow, brussels, belgium, household, loneliness, feminist, prostitution, single mother, woman director, minimalism, slow cinema, chores, mother son relationship
Yes, it's 3 hours, but we have to forgive that it's from an era before MTV and the resulting cultural ADD. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was the inspiration for Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (2010). Well, actually, I don't know better. Maybe it was. The premise is similar. Here we become the spectator of one woman's descent into madness. It's kind of riveting in a ghoulish sort or way.
There's a lot of much deeper things to say about this film and what it does and what it means, about the crushing routine of everyday life, about the nature of the worlds we live in, the stories we tell, but for now I just wanna say this movie is incredibly hypnotic and genuinely engaging and passes by far quicker than any movie this long and with this little happening rightly should. Good stuff tbh.
