CINEMA CYCLE "NO MORE REALITY?": "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" by Chantal Akerman

Through a simultaneously poetic and political perspective, the second feature film by Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) details three days of the repetitive existence of a young widow of middle class in Brussels; the alienation of a woman from her daily routine as a housewife, with the prostitution appearing in a counter light as a tragic accent. One of the decisive films in the consecration of Akerman expresses an encounter between the mundane and the dramatic, the form and the theme, portraying the ritualistic and automated choreography of domestic life through an exceptional formal solidity.