(Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France/West Germany 1976, 85 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
At the age of twenty-one, Chantal Akerman moved from Belgium to New York City, shooting film, taking petty jobs, and making connections with independent filmmakers. Over that two year period, her loving but manipulative mother sent her numerous letters that connected her to home. Three years later, following some critical success, Akerman returned to the city to shoot footage that she would pair with a voice-over of these letters. Lonely without being alone, this footage and the ambient sound of the city serve as a counterpoint to the letters and the monotony of stagnation on both sides of the ocean. #52 on the 2022 Sight & Sound list.
This screening sponsored by the RIT Cornerstone Initiative.
Upcoming Events in this Series
Film Screenings | Rear Window (On 35mm)
Hitchcock 125 | The Sight & Sound Club James Stewart gives one of his career-defining performances in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most suspenseful films and what the Master would call his “most cinematic.”
Related
The Sight and Sound Club
-
For the last seventy years, the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound magazine has published a list of The Greatest Films of All Time compiled by critics.