Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Catherine Fowler Groundswell Speaker 2024 Financed by HandMade Films

Financed by HandMade Films

struggle of being continually rejected from jobs

and daytrips to Inchcolm Island

a neighbouring town

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Catherine Fowler Groundswell Speaker 2024 Financed by HandMade FilmsLucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable. Sight & SoundCatherine Fowlers study positions Jeanne Dielman as a contrary classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akermans 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 Akermans liberated early films, which involved the rejection of domestic space, married life