Chantal Akerman

In 1976 the French newspaper Le Monde heralded Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as the first masterpiece in the feminine in the history of the cinema. The unconventional style and subject made the film a powerful sign of a decade when feminism erupted into the arena of politics and film. Akerman the filmmaker came of age at the same time as the new age of feminism, and her films became key texts in the nascent field of feminist… (több)