Jeanne dielman

Recently it struck me that a lot of people call films “pretentious” without appearing to know what the word means. These days it seems to be a synonym for “I don’t understan…

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Jeanne Dielman (1975)

Rasa tenang tengok Jeanne Dielman duduk minum kopi. She deserve more me-time. Seriously.

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions…