Chantal Akerman on JEANNE DIELMAN 

To turn an everyday chore into a metaphoric action is one thing - to make a 200 minute movie about it is extraordinary. What a fantastic and vastly intelligent mind to have graced the silver screen. RIP

This is just about the BEST interview with a director I have ever seen - incredibly fluid and informative - and moving

merci chantal for making this great film. we will miss you.

I'm obsessed with this movie

Given her death, the last thirty seconds of this video are so heartbreaking to watch.

No one would dare make a film like this today. Thank God it came out when it did. RIP Chantal Akerman...

She is really queen of arthouse cinema.

Just the other day, this film knocked "Vertigo" out of the top spot for the greatest film of all time, and knocked "Citizen Cane" down to No. 3, on the Sight and Sound survey, which is conducted every 10 years. Cheers.

I loved this movie. I think Chantal is a brilliant soul.

A genius of Cinema, very sad to hear of your death today. Vale Chantal Akerman (1950-2015).

This film is remarkable in so many levels, and I Iove how Chantal talks about the importance of women’s position in cinema and about her experiences during the involvement in Jeanne Dielman. Those reasons she elaborate really accept the fact that the film is a minimalistic.

I didn't think I could watch this , never mind in one sitting, but I did. I'm not sure why, though the lead is very easy on the eye and that helps. Maybe that's the point the director makes - she doesn't look like someone who would do that day in day out. Delphine's performance is very understated and you can see her character wilt slightly as time goes one - but I think you have to endure her day to notice it than have a shorter film and have it overplayed. I did notice a dining chair went missing and thought it was a clue but apparently it's a continuity error. I'm glad I watched it and I don't consider it wasted time.

The BFI critics poll has voted this the greatest film of all time.

incroyable, magnifique, merci Chantal

Este filme de Chantal Akerman foi eleito em 2022 o melhor da década pela revista Sigth and Sound, matéria com fonte na BBC no blog Foilha Verde News.

Brilliant movie 🎥 loved this Film

The reference to the Nouveau Roman now makes so much sense. It was the most successful of the Nouveau Roman but all the others are important in thinking and it's inherent critique of narrative.

Thank you Chantal Akerman

R.I.P

Marguerite Duras got bored?! That's the most ironic thing I've heard today LOL

R.I.P. to a cinema genius.

Missing Chantal Akerman...

Might have to watch this on Hulu out of respect. RIP.

Funny anecdote with Duras. Wonder what she though of it later on. Christine V. was 10 years after the mentioned screening.

“The idea of Jeanne Dielman came to me one night “: that explains all!

Superbe chose d'entendre parler Chantal Akerman, le cinéma de cette femme est une grande chance pour le cinéma mondial

❤😢

The British Film Institute's "Best Film of All time" 2022. First time a female director has won (likely bc more women now comprise the selection committee).

Menuda queen

vivre sa vie

Interesting how she was the same age as Welles when he made 'Citizen Kane'.

incroyable🤍

I cant help but think that this movie was chosen for political reasons....and while I do appreciate the topic, I dont think a topic in itself should give a movie so much status. A movie matters for the universal message it conveys and the way it does it, not the specific topic of the time. Politicizing art is the bdst and fastest way to kill it.

This movie is very important. If you want to find out if somebody is a pretentious douche, you just have to ask them if they like this movie. And if they do, you don't need to waste your time with them anymore.

I get what Akerman was trying to do, and I agree that people - and women particularly - are boxed in and ultimately ground down and destroyed by the routines and roles they've been consigned to. I also don't doubt how much she invested emotionally into this. Problem is, Akerman made a film that was at least twice as long as as it should have been and is a turgid, bloated exercise. Jeanne Dielman is the cinematic equivalent of a doorstop. What empathy I might have had for the lead character was ground out of me by Akerman's choice where she seemed to say, "if she's living a boring existence, I'll make you experience that in excruciating detail". YMMV, but by the end when Mme. Dielman finally commits her shocking act... even that is dull and lacked any real resonance. Ultimately, Jeanne Dielman is a failed experiment, and it's not even an interesting one. Greatest film ever? Not by a long shot, and a list of 100 better films than Jeanne Dielman comprised of films that that didn't make either Sight and Sound list would probably be easy to come up with.

Best film ever made my ass! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was picked strictly for political reasons.

Dwangneurose...

Je la trouve très mal dans sa peau dans cet interview. Fumant trop, buvant trop probablement, sa voix cassée le prouve. Ca me fait beaucoup de peine de la voir comme ça. Elle me donne l'impression d'être un oiseau pour le chat, déjà. En fait, toute sa mimique, ses tics et ses gestes me font penser à mon père qui a choisi la même sortie de scène. Tout le monde n'a pas la chance d'être insouciante(e), hélas. Mais vraiment, quelle idée de prendre la vie tellement au sérieux que l'on veuille en finir, ca n'a aucun sens.

I want my 3 hours and 21 mins back you hack

Jew makes an extremely boring film and thinks it's the bees knees