Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
August 16th, 2025 1:00 pm
Synopsis
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 one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.
This screening is in conjunction with the exhibition Gail Rebhan, About Time
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Film Details
Director: Chantal Akerman
Running Time: 201 minutes
Country: France
Release Year: 1975
Rated: Unrated
Reviews
“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.” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian