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Magical History Tour – Mind the Gap

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Film still from JEANNE DIELMAN: You can see a kitchen, in the background sink and stove, in the foreground a table on which there is a milk bottle and glasses.

Sat 15.07.
16:00

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • Belgium, France / 1975
    201 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • with

    Delphine Seyrig

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

Minutely and for minutes, the camera observes in static shots the daily routine of the widowed housewife and mother Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig): tidying up, dusting, washing up, cooking dinner. In the afternoon, she receives elderly gentlemen. Even this casual prostitution, hidden from the camera's view, occupies a fixed place in the precise, unchanging course of the day. Barely perceptibly at first, the rigid structures are shaken up by subtle omissions; the escalation is inevitable. (mg)

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  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media