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Chantal Akerman's landmark second feature follows the meticulous daily routine of its titular lead over the course of three days.
Charting the breakdown of its protagonist, a bourgeois Belgian housewife (Delphine Seyrig), mother and part-time sex worker over the course of three days, the film rigorously records her everyday life in extended time and hypnotic detail. To watch Jeanne Dielman is to submit to Akerman's unrelenting gaze and to be trapped with Jeanne: 'to have the physical experience of time unfolding inside you, of time entering you'.
Chantal Akerman | Belgium, France | 1975 | 201 mins | Subtitled | 15
