Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

About this book

"Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable." Sight & Sound Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal
Akerman's decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of 'slow looking'. By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both 'differences' the canon and diverges from Akerman's liberated early films, which involved the rejection of domestic space, married life and the heterosexual script. Fowler draws on original footage, scripts, unmade and unseen projects, interviews and other documents to painstakingly piece together the making of the film, discovering an alternative origin story which centers upon female alliances, forged through a combination of shared film culture and lived sexism. Those viewers who take up Akerman's invitation to spend time with Jeanne will find their expectations of cinema are changed. Because more than any other film before or since, it reminds us that we give our time to a film; and in making us look both harder and for longer it asks us to feel time slipping away, for ourselves as much as for its protagonist.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. BFI Film Classics
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 On Canons, Classics, Plots and Movie Theatres: A Challenge
  7. 2 The Making of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  8. 3 Choosing NO Liberation: The Housewife, Feminism and the Women’s Movement
  9. 4 Delphine Does the Dishes
  10. 5 Slow Looking
  11. Notes
  12. Credits
  13. eCopyright Page