CW: sex, bisexuality, closet reference, SW reference, hunger/homelessness

The two young women wander through grainy greyscale streets, eat ravenously with the meager scraps of money they have, huddle together for warmth, and use chaotic tactics to get what they need. They repeat their circumstances, "I'm hungry," "I'm cold," to each other, like a game, defying their circumstances with almost whimsical dreams and resourceful awareness of the streets they wander. Their hopes and passions are subsumed at times by their needs, but they survive in dark alleys as they talk of adventures toward romance (but the only romance we see is between them is this the closet is this bisexuality is this exploration is this innocence is this all of the above). They wield themselves as weapons against deprivation, and find the physical transactions as meaningless as their descendant in Fat Girl would more than a decade later. Survival and dreams mix awkwardly here.

52 project: 85/52

Extremely poignant and very real look at late adolescence; shows me things I haven't seen anywhere in movies and reminds me of parts of my life I'd forgotten.

A very condensed Akerman film, which shows why her work is normally longer. "I'm Hungry, I'm Cold" perhaps contains the most restless characters in any Akerman movie I've seen, and is probably the fastest paced. It can be very stressful at times, but appropriately so, considering the two subjects are young people feeling the thrill of being on their own. Always consuming, and never giving, yet they're not condemned for their actions either.

wow!!!!

this reminded me so much of daisies (1966) + if i ever make a short film i want it to look like this

Lucky enough to see this on 35mm, unlucky enough that it didn't have subtitles. However I was fully able to understand the plot, a testament to her filmmaking abilities and the translation was given to the audience in a separate booklet. The scene of the girls singing in the restaurant is one of the most charming things I've ever seen in a movie. Excellent short and really made me want to watch more Chantal.

Too affected and ambiguous to work for me.

i miss her

CW: sex, bisexuality, closet reference, SW reference, hunger/homelessness

The two young women wander through grainy greyscale streets, eat ravenously with the meager scraps of money they have, huddle together for warmth, and use chaotic tactics to get what they need. They repeat their circumstances, "I'm hungry," "I'm cold," to each other, like a game, defying their circumstances with almost whimsical dreams and resourceful awareness of the streets they wander. Their hopes and passions are subsumed at times by their needs, but they survive in dark alleys as they talk of adventures toward romance (but the only romance we see is between them is this the closet is this bisexuality is this exploration is this innocence is this all of the above). They wield themselves as weapons against deprivation, and find the physical transactions as meaningless as their descendant in Fat Girl would more than a decade later. Survival and dreams mix awkwardly here.

52 project: 85/52

this reminded me so much of daisies (1966) + if i ever make a short film i want it to look like this

Funny, but I can't see what she was getting at here.

same

A very condensed Akerman film, which shows why her work is normally longer. "I'm Hungry, I'm Cold" perhaps contains the most restless characters in any Akerman movie I've seen, and is probably the fastest paced. It can be very stressful at times, but appropriately so, considering the two subjects are young people feeling the thrill of being on their own. Always consuming, and never giving, yet they're not condemned for their actions either.

charming

this great honestly. scene where one girl makes food while other has sex for the first time, off camera, a masterpiece