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Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Film still from JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES: A woman sits on her bed in an undershirt and looks at herself in the mirror.

Sat 11.02.
16:15

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • Belgium, F / 1975
    202 min. / DCP / Original version with German subtitles

  • with

    Delphine Seyrig

  • Original language

    French

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

A woman – Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) – in an entire microcosm, for three days. In static shots, the camera observes the everyday routines of the widowed housewife and mother in minute detail and for minutes on end in a world that seems entirely cut off from everything else: tidying, making beds, dusting, doing the washing up, cooking food. In the afternoon, she receives older gentlemen; her occasional prostitution also occupies a fixed place in the precise course of the day. Barely perceptibly at first, the rigid temporal and spatial structures are shaken up on the second day, while the third day brings inexorable escalation. A silent, solitary chamber drama whose choreography of gestures and rituals bears radical testimony to emotional numbness. The visual and temporal experience is no less radical for the audience either. (mg)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media