Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [videorecording] / Paradise Films et Unité Trois ; direction de la photographie, Babette Mangolte ; un film écrit et réalisé par Chantal Anne Akerman ; direction de production, Evelyne Paul, Corinne Jenart.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Director-approved special ed., widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Cinéma de notre temps. Autour de Jeanne Dielman. Saute ma ville.
Notes:
Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical. Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Special features: Disc 1. Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Chantal Akerman. Disc 2. "Autour de Jeanne Dielman:" a 69-minute documentary shot by actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and Akerman, made during the filming; "Chantal Akerman : on Jeanne Dielman" interview with Chantal Akerman; "Chantal Akerman on filmmaking" exerpted from a 1997 episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps; "Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig" segment from the 1976 French television program Les rendez-vous du dimanche where Akerman and Seyrig discuss their work on Jeanne Dielman; "Babette Mangolte" interview with cinematographer Babette Mangolte; "Natalia Akerman" interview with Chantal Akerman's mother; "Saute ma ville" short film directed by and starring Chantal Akerman. Booklet: "A matter of time" by film scholar Ivone Marguilies.
Summary:
Evokes a sense of impending doom, the daily domestic routine of a middle-aged widow. Her chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Her life is beginning to break down.
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