Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975 Directed by Chantal Akerman
Synopsis
A lonely, ritual-obsessed widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. When one of her clients causes her to have her first-ever orgasm, her life slowly falls apart.
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Habit, "the most imperious of all masters," analyzed six ways from Sunday as a time bomb with a 201-minute-long fuse. Bressonian lampoons of Julia Child cooking shows, a masterpiece of absences, a prisoner polishing the bars of her own cage until a missed hour causes the universe to shift. Far from a release, orgasm is the ultimate loss of control.
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I knew only two things going into this film:
#1. It is long.
#2. She makes a meatloaf.3 days in the life of Jeanne Dielman truncated into a little over 3 hours. 1 hour representing one day, in which, the action consists of the monotonous ritual of daily living - washing the dishes, preparing meals, folding clothes and running errands. essentially my life, save for the intermittent sex for cash part. the film also contains three characters, Jeanne Dielman, her son Sylvain, and the apartment in which they reside, which also plays an important part in the film (as much so as Jeanne herself). The rooms of the apartment have just about as much screen time…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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At least now I know where Bella Tarr got the idea for The Turin Horse. It wasn’t Nietzsche.
Like Turn Horse, Jeanne Dielman is segmented by days, shows us the mundane tasks that are repeated each day.. in real time, and shows progressive degeneration. Unlike Turin Horse, Jeanne is 4 days shorter .. don’t get your hopes up here, the running time is LONGER. A bladder busting 201 minutes. Also unlike Turin Horse Jeanne Dielman is a remarkably easy watch ( helpful hint .. take a refreshment break at the end of each day )
I love this type of film, as it demands interpretation. I’ve just finished watching it, so, ideas are still flying around in my head, and…
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An amazingly long film that gradually opens up and gathers the viewers attention and interest. But along the way it's torture.
The good news is that the film shows the day in such detail you can copy the woman's meatloaf recipe with complete accuracy.
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90 out of 100
For an hour, it's simply hypnotic, in that despite being simply a woman doing banal chores (making dinner, cleaning the tub) and sitting silently with her teenage son, it's shot with this brilliant former mastery that it's never tedious. The Ozu like low camera that frames the rooms at right angels, is when mixed with the long takes makes it uniquely alienating, and it has this constant rhythm in the way it follows Jeanne from room to room. And there from the start it's already a pretty successful feminist statement because Jeanne goes about all her mundane tasks in way that's so carefully assured, that's almost robot like, or more like a master samurai, that it…
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Merciless...
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman, 1975
One of the most trying types of art film, it has as rewarding a climax a three-hour plus film can have. The central murder can be about plenty of things; anger over him giving her an orgasm, an exhaustion at the type of life being lived, or even just a momentary lapse in judgment. Regardless, Akerman takes the Antonioni style to its logical conclusion, and if Tarkovsky is Tarr's father, than Akerman is his mother.
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At least now I know where Bella Tarr got the idea for The Turin Horse. It wasn’t Nietzsche.
Like Turn Horse, Jeanne Dielman is segmented by days, shows us the mundane tasks that are repeated each day.. in real time, and shows progressive degeneration. Unlike Turin Horse, Jeanne is 4 days shorter .. don’t get your hopes up here, the running time is LONGER. A bladder busting 201 minutes. Also unlike Turin Horse Jeanne Dielman is a remarkably easy watch ( helpful hint .. take a refreshment break at the end of each day )
I love this type of film, as it demands interpretation. I’ve just finished watching it, so, ideas are still flying around in my head, and…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Viena no īpatnējākajām filmām, ko esmu redzējusi. Trīs-ar-pusi stundas gandrīz reālā laikā. Viņa mazgā traukus, viņa mizo kartupeļus, viņa vakariņo, viņa ģērbjas, viņa kaut kur iet kopā ar dēlu (kur viņi gāja?), viņa pieņem vīriešus. Perfekts ritms līdz.. viņu izsit no līdzsvara.
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The length of the title sure matched the length of this movie.
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An amazingly long film that gradually opens up and gathers the viewers attention and interest. But along the way it's torture.
The good news is that the film shows the day in such detail you can copy the woman's meatloaf recipe with complete accuracy.
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I knew only two things going into this film:
#1. It is long.
#2. She makes a meatloaf.3 days in the life of Jeanne Dielman truncated into a little over 3 hours. 1 hour representing one day, in which, the action consists of the monotonous ritual of daily living - washing the dishes, preparing meals, folding clothes and running errands. essentially my life, save for the intermittent sex for cash part. the film also contains three characters, Jeanne Dielman, her son Sylvain, and the apartment in which they reside, which also plays an important part in the film (as much so as Jeanne herself). The rooms of the apartment have just about as much screen time…