Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Paperback / softback
by Catherine (University of Otago, New Zealand) Fowler
Part of the BFI Film Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
“Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable.” Sight & SoundCatherine Fowler’s study positions Jeanne Dielman as a ‘contrary’ classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal Akerman’s decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of ‘slow looking’.
By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both ‘differences’ the canon and diverges from Akerman’s liberated early films, which involved the rejection of domestic space, married life and the heterosexual script. Fowler draws on original footage, scripts, unmade and unseen projects, interviews and other documents to painstakingly piece together the making of the film, discovering an alternative origin story which centers upon female alliances, forged through a combination of shared film culture and lived sexism.
Those viewers who take up Akerman’s invitation to spend time with Jeanne will find their expectations of cinema are changed. Because more than any other film before or since, it reminds us that we give our time to a film; and in making us look both harder and for longer it asks us to feel time slipping away, for ourselves as much as for its protagonist.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 60 colour illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
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- ISBN:9781839022821
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, 60 colour illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:18/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781839022821
