Delphine Seyrig in Chantal Akerman's film “Jeanne Dielman 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Brussels” © COLLECTIONS CINEMATEK – FON
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Selection Disappeared in 2015, the filmmaker left behind a profoundly emancipatory and modern work. Arte.tv pays tribute to him by programming six of his films.
In 2022, the British magazine “Sight and Sound” caused astonishment by putting at the top of its list of the hundred greatest films in the history of cinema “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975, broadcast on Arte Wednesday at 8:55 p.m.), by Chantal Akerman, dethroning “Citizen Kane”, by Orson Welles, and “8 ½”, by Fellini. This radical choice of a feature film little known outside of European cinema was wrongly explained as linked to the #MeToo movement. It was supposed to compensate for the low place given to women filmmakers in the famous ranking. The reason was simpler: “Jeanne Dielman…” is perhaps not the greatest film in the history of cinema but it is undoubtedly one of the best and most daring.
Akerman cuts in real time and in fixed shots, for more than three hours, the activity of a woman (Delphine Seyrig), mainly in her household chores. She thus makes us feel, without the slightest speech, the unbearable weight of domestic life, until the automaton goes haywire. If “Jeanne Dielman…” is the most impressive film by Chantal Akerman, then aged 25, the cycle proposed by Arte. tv addresses the…
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