This masterpiece was voted the best film of all time, and it's showing tonight – Cinema News

Considered one of the pioneers of feminist cinema, Chantal Akerman notably left her mark on the 7th art with her cult film, voted best film of all time by the British magazine Sight and Sound. You will probably have guessed, we are talking about Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels.

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Released in cinemas in 1976, this 3h18 feature film tells the daily life of a housewife, a small-bourgeois woman always well dressed, in her forties, who lives alone with her grown-up son. But very quickly, we discover that Jeanne Dielman is engaging in prostitution to try to make ends meet.

To embody on screen this stay-at-home woman and mother with a perfectly tailored lifestyle, Chantal Akerman made a symbolic choice: Delphine Seyrig, a figure of feminism in France (she is particularly known for being one of the great defenders of the right to abortion).

Chantal Akerman's masterpiece

For Sight and Sound magazine, no doubt, Jeanne Dielman is indeed THE best film in the world. In 2022, 1,600 film critics and academics from the four corners of the globe were chosen to elect the winner, the one who would succeed the essential Cold Sweat by Alfred Hitchcock.

As a reminder, this prestigious ranking of the hundred greatest works in the history of cinema takes place every ten years. The film of Chantal Akerman therefore has plenty of time to savor this great victory.

And among the many reviews published on AlloCiné, we can read a certain number of flattering words, like these: “A masterpiece that leaves a deep mark”, “A filmic object of pure staging that literally grabs the guts”, “An extraordinary film”, “Fascinating”, “A hypnotic film”or even “Rare are the films that say so much with so few words…”.

A great classic of the 7th art not to be missed under any circumstances!

Tonight on Arte at 8:55 p.m.