Expanding The Classics: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Event Descriptive Subtitles, Foreign languageAbout Expanding The Classics: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman’s opus has been voted the greatest film of all time and is arguably the greatest film about time. A ‘love film’ for Akerman’s mother – a Holocaust survivor who could never discuss her past with her daughter – and a revolution in 201 minutes.
A film about women’s overlooked everyday lives (‘the lowest in the hierarchy of film images,’ Akeman noted). A film that upends epic cinema. A film about a housewife obsessed with her daily routine in order to suppress anxiety. A film about psychology but with little emotion. A film made with a mostly female crew that transformed European art cinema’s most glamorous star, Delphine Seyrig, into a seemingly unremarkable single mother. But above all, a revolutionary film due to Akerman’s treatment of time and space.
Screening as part of our Expanding The Classics season, offering classic films with descriptive subtitles, audio description or showing in a relaxed environment.
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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
