Jeanne Dielman : 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman
1975 - 200 min - 35 mm - Couleur - Belgique, France

FICTION
Jeanne Dielman, a middle-aged widow, lives in Brussels with her seventeen-year-old son. Her life is organised like a mechanical ballet of domestic gestures. Jeanne Dielman cooks, sets the table, serves her son, dines, clears the table. Jeanne Dielman goes to bed, sleeps, makes her bed, gets dressed, polishes her son’s shoes.
The film is made up of loops, rolling out the same imperturbable chain of repetitive rituals, until the most unexpected event occurs, shattering the closed circuit of these little ceremonies.

Femme


Author-Director : Chantal Akerman
Photography : Babette Mangolte
Sound : Jean-Paul Loublier, Françoise Van Thienen, Bénie Deswarte
Editing : Patricia Canino
Delegate Producer : Paradise films
Co-producer : Unité Trois

Distribution


Distributor : CINEMATEK - Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
DVD Editing : Carlotta Films
Circulation-Consultation : BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Département de l'Audiovisuel