Director
Chantal Akerman
Year
1974
Run Time
85
min
Country
Belgium
Language
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
This film is presented in with English subtitles.
Chantal Akerman’s first feature is a charming yet demanding pyscho-drama that places her in the same avant-garde class as Robbe-Grillet and Duras. The film is a meditation on voyeurism in which Akerman dismantles homosexual and heterosexual myths.
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