Wide Angle: Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman) - Private Affairs in Public Places 

This video essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin exposes those strategies in detail. They show how Akerman undermines the formal categories and narrative conventions of fiction film.
Adrian Martin is a film critic and audiovisual essayist based in Spain. An archive covering 45 years of work is at www.adrianmartinfilmcritic.com
Cristina Álvarez López is a critic, writer and filmmaker based in Spain. Her website "on, with, around film" is laughmotel.wordpress.com