One might accuse the Dardennes of treading the same ground over and over if they weren’t so impressive in their craft and genuine in their humanity. And impressive the film is; although filled with bleakContinue reading
Category: Belgian Cinema
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Akerman’s maddening, hypnotic, fascinating, mundane, electrifying, mind-numbing, and ultimately shocking portrait of three days in the life of an “ordinary” widow and housewife is a singular achievement, with its complex aesthetic of unadorned stasis givingContinue reading