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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 5:01:35 PM UTC-7, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hey,   
   > I'm a big fan of Chantal Akerman and I don't care who knows it.   
   > "Jeanne Dielman" is a film I've seen recently and long after "Akerman   
   > in the '70s" and "La Captive" and those black and white beauties where   
   > woman are roaming around with no particular place to go. To "get" "La   
   > Captive" is to grok film noir. Not the jingoistic cops-and-robbers   
   > movies with fedoras and gats but the real deal.   
   > "Jeanne Dielman" is the story of a woman told over three days. A widow   
   > with a son and an afternoon trick to pay the rent. She -- and her   
   > clients -- are middle-aged, middle-class people living in a city   
   > somewhere in Europe. Jeanne's world is crumbling but detecting it from   
   > her routine can be illusive. One major clue is when she ruins the   
   > potatoes for dinner and that requires conversation out of the norm   
   > with her son. We are observing in dead-on cinematography the   
   > unraveling of a soul who doesn't see the clues we do (even if, at   
   > first, they appear meaningless). It's one of those films where when it   
   > ends you go "wtf was that about?" and two later you're in line at the   
   > deli and it smacks you in the head. The Village Voice -- who,   
   > admittedly, I think are a bunch of cineastes with their heads up their   
   > asses -- called it the 19th greatest film of the 20th century. The   
   > NYTimes called it the "first masterpiece of the feminine in the   
   > history of the cinema."   
   > At over 3 hours it's a bear. Yet, afterwards you realize not a single   
   > frame was wasted. Not a motion out of joint. Effing brilliant and   
   > worth every minute.   
   > William   
   > www.williamahearn.com   
      
   https://www.vox.com/culture/23488576/jeanne-dielman-sight-sound-best-2022   
      
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