No Home Movie
Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels apartment.
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
I, You, He, She
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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.
News from Home
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
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Philippe Garrel
Director
Niels Arestrup
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Truck-driver
Jan Decorte
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Sylvain Dielman
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