Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Name: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Genre: Drama
Released: October 4, 1978
Duration: 202 min
Rating: 94
Cast: Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jan Decorte

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Carlotta Films | Release Date: October 4, 1978 | Not Rated

Starring: Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jan Decorte, Yves Bical

Summary: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Director: Chantal Akerman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 202 min

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Scott Tobias

Chantal Akerman’s radical 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles turns the term “realism” on its face, exploring the contours of a woman’s life through the mundane routines that never make it into movies. Read full review

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Eric Henderson

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 experiment in film form, Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, is an astonishing work of subtextual feminism which has to count as one of the seminal films of the 1970s. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

The silence of Jeanne Dielman is the film’s weather and its atmosphere. It is a silence of terrible loneliness, and a silence in which a storm is gathering. Read full review

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Josh Larsen

Ultimately, Jeanne Dielman registers not as a condemnation of domesticity, but a document of the exhaustion that comes from caring for others and never receiving care in return. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

By placing so much emphasis on aspects of life and work that other films routinely omit, mystify, or skirt over, Akerman forges a major statement, not only in a feminist context but also in a way that tells us something about the lives we all live. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Avant-garde triumph revolving around the seemingly mundane life of a widow in Brussels. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Being fascinating and unique, two qualities unquestionably in evidence here, don’t automatically deserve praise and, because of the film’s high quotient of tediousness, I find it impossible to recommend to any but the most devoted of experimental art film lovers. It works very well, however, as a cure for insomnia. Read full review

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katezoe

Dec 20, 2022

Beyond all expectations! The originality, story, set design, and all aspects of this film is mind blowing. A simple story of a simple character.

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Annette_

Feb 4, 2023

The best thing about the film is the context and the contrived sense of the critics. The film itself is of no value in terms of all the components of the film.

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