Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Unrated

10/4/19783h 22m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

Director:

Chantal Akerman

Status:

Released

Language:

French

Buget:

$120,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

widow
brussels, belgium
household
loneliness
feminist
prostitution
single mother
woman director
minimalism
slow cinema
chores
mother son relationship

Cast

Delphine Seyrig

~ as ~

Jeanne Dielman

Jan Decorte

~ as ~

Sylvain Dielman

Henri Storck

~ as ~

1st Caller

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

~ as ~

2nd Caller

Yves Bical

~ as ~

3rd Caller

Chantal Akerman

~ as ~

Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)

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Reviews (2)

b
badelf
Written 3 year(s) ago
8
Yes, it's 3 hours, but we have to forgive that it's from an era before MTV and the resulting cultural ADD. If I didn't know better, I'd think this was the inspiration for Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (2010). Well, actually, I don't know better. Maybe it was.

The premise is similar. Here we become the spectator of one woman's descent into madness. It's kind of riveting in a ghoulish sort or way.
testr
Written 3 year(s) ago
10
There's a lot of much deeper things to say about this film and what it does and what it means, about the crushing routine of everyday life, about the nature of the worlds we live in, the stories we tell, but for now I just wanna say this movie is incredibly hypnotic and genuinely engaging and passes by far quicker than any movie this long and with this little happening rightly should. Good stuff tbh.