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Movie Summary: Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman’s loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

Queer Film LA Says: Out director Chantal Ackerman directs this minimalist meditation on isolation and homesickness, featuring letters written by her own mother when she lives in New York.