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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

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Overview

A classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's marathon dissection of the life of Belgian housewife/mother/prostitute Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) stays on the surface of the details of Jeanne's humdrum daily life, as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary of an ordinary life, in the tradition of Agnès Varda's earlier New Wave landmark, Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961). Jeanne feeds her son, fixes potatoes, does the marketing, entertains gentlemen -- but things slowly, almost imperceptibly start to go wrong, first those potatoes, and then, finally, something more shocking. Akerman sets out to capture the rhythm of daily life, even as that pace sets us up, after several hours, for the almost tossed-off, blink-and-you'll-miss-it climax.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/09/2017
UPC:	0715515196512
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	3:21:00
Sales rank:	8,150

Special Features

New 2k digital restoration, undertaken by the Cinematheque royale de Belgiue and supervised by Director Chantal Akerman and Cinematographer Babette Mangolte, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Autour de "Jeanne Dielman, "a documentary-shot by actor Sami Frey and Edited by Agnes Ravez and Akerman-made during the filming of Jeanne Dielman; Interviews from 2009 with Akerman and Mangolte; Excerpt from "Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman," a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinema de notre temps; Interview from 2007 with Akerman's mother, Natalia; Excerpt from a 1976 television interview featuring Akerman and actor Delphine Seyrig; Saute ma ville (1968), Akerman's first film, with an introduction by the Director; Plus: An essay by film scholar Ivone Margulies

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Delphine Seyrig	Jeanne Dielman
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze	Second Caller
Jan Decorte	Sylvain Dielman
Chantal Akerman	Neighbor
Henri Storck	Actor

Technical Credits

Chantal Akerman	Director,Screenwriter
Paul Vecchiali	Producer
Alain Dahan	Producer
Liliane de Kermadec	Producer

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Editorial Reviews

At a running time of three hours and 21 minutes, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) was an audacious effort for a 25-year-old filmmaker -- and sufficiently daunting on practical grounds so that the movie wasn't seen in the USA in anything except 16mm prints for the first 33 years of its existence, until 2009. It's not a brisk 201 minutes but it is engrossing and rewarding, a painstakingly realistic account (oozing verisimiltude out of every frame, and there are a lot of frames) of three days in the life of the female protagonist of the title, portrayed by Delphine Seyrig. Akerman turns this detail, and not-quite-perfect (and increasingly troubled attempts at) repetition into a gradually intensifying, almost purely visual tale of psychological stress and deterioration, culminating in sudden violence, shocking in its swiftness and brutality, and brevity. The shots are almost all at waist-level, and camera movement is nearly non-existent as Seyrig's portrayal (aided in places by Jan DeCorte as her teenaged son), finely nuanced and as naturalistic as they come, unfolds, in a seemingly mundane domestic Belgian setting, punctuated by a couple of sex-for-hire interludes that become the catalyst for the final unraveling of this woman's life. The movie won all kinds of praise from feminist critics for its subject matter and origins, but the movie is a significant achievement beyond those cultural boundaries, as cinematic storytelling set to its own agenda and focus, with no apologies or compromises. And that unique focus and agenda also make it necessary to track down under the right conditions -- it's not as though anyone but IFC is likely ever to show this picture on cable, but it should (indeed, must) be seen on a big screen, in a theater, to get any measure of the proper effect, and the enveloping impact of Akerman's vision and Seyrig's performance.

All Movie Guide - Bruce Eder

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

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