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A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne
Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously
details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a
middle-aged widow (Delphine Seyrig)—whose chores include making
the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional
trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple,
but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting
character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete
depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing,
compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and
argued over for decades.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration undertaken by the Royal Belgian
Film Archive, supervised by director of photography Babette
Mangolte, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Autour de “Jeanne Dielman,” a 69-minute documentary—shot by
actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and director Chantal
Akerman—made during the filming of Jeanne Dielman
- Interviews from 2009 with Akerman and Mangolte
- Excerpt from “Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman,” a 1997
episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps
- Interview from 2007 with Akerman’s mother, Natalia
- Excerpt from a 1976 television interview featuring Akerman and
actor Delphine Seyrig
- Saute ma ville (1968), Akerman’s first film, with an
introduction by the director
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone
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A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne
Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously
details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a
middle-aged widow (Delphine Seyrig)—whose chores include making
the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional
trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple,
but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting
character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete
depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing,
compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and
argued over for decades.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration undertaken by the Royal Belgian
Film Archive, supervised by director of photography Babette
Mangolte, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Autour de “Jeanne Dielman,” a 69-minute documentary—shot by
actor Sami Frey and edited by Agnes Ravez and director Chantal
Akerman—made during the filming of Jeanne Dielman
- Interviews from 2009 with Akerman and Mangolte
- Excerpt from “Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman,” a 1997
episode of the French television program Cinéma de notre temps
- Interview from 2007 with Akerman’s mother, Natalia
- Excerpt from a 1976 television interview featuring Akerman and
actor Delphine Seyrig
- Saute ma ville (1968), Akerman’s first film, with an
introduction by the director
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ivone
Margulies
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