Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

by Catherine Fowler

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839022825
• ISBN13: 9781839022821
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.3"