JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
by Chantal Akerman, Fiction, 200', 1975, 35mm, BELGIUM
With Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Stock, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

In her meticulously clean apartment, the life of Jeanne a young widow is better
regulated than the best of clocks. By the middle of the afternoon she has the evening meal on the stove. Then,her client arrive. Her son Sylvain is coming back from school…

CHANTAL AKERMAN
Born in 1950 in Brussels, Chantal Akerman turns her first short film Saute ma ville in 1968. In the United States, she discovers the work of experimental filmmakers, and shoots Hôtel Monterey in 1972. Jeanne Dielman… (1975) marks a turning point in her career. She makes nearly forty films, both documentary and fiction feature films. Her topics of predilection are: female loneliness, exile and uprooting, but she also allows herself to adapt most important classic authors, such as for her film La Captive (2000) a remarkable film inspired on the work of Marcel Proust.