Adam was right, I can’t stop thinking about it. A boring, frustrating, painful experience of a movie that is also kind of brilliant. A unique film you should check out if you’re willing to be bored out of your mind for nearly 3 and a half hours.

I did it, I watched it, fuck!
I first heard about this film in high school and have ever since been reading things about it and waiting for the "right day" to watch it. For some reason today was that day. As much as I have read and known about this film, actually experiencing it myself was kind of surreal. Like I knew what to expect but I didn't expect for it to send me into the state it sent me in. I'm not about to be the Man on Letterboxd explaining his interpretation of this film so I'm just gonna say I loved it, it's genius, and that's that.

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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.

A movie that makes you physically start because its protagonist drops a potato.

As passive as watching a film itself until a combination of tiny broken routines add up to something totally incongruous.

type of movie i wish i could hang up on a wall and have playing on repeat all day everyday just as reminder. soooo much packed into so little content. themes of feminism and the ultimate destruction of life being routine holy shit wow. can’t believe i actually enjoyed it in the end

You know a film is special when a peeling potatoes scene becomes one of the most unsettling moments you've ever seen on screen.

A unique, feminist and controversial piece of art thanks to Chantal Akerman talent and Delphine Seyrig, whose grace and beauty bless the viewers from the first to the last minute.

it was beautiful but holy fuck, it TRULY is 3 hours long

Was originally a little put off by the length of this thing but I found that I had no real reason to be. I knew I was going to dig it but I was worried that the some of the pacing and drawn-out-scenes might become more tedious than they actually did. I was gripped by every moment - right down to the last dish being washed, or schnitzel egg washed. Brilliant. ' have to check some more out, pronto.

Watch a depressed woman do chores in real time for three hours

Viver esse filme é emprestar um tempo à reflexão. A vida de uma mulher aparentemente simples e redundante, esconde por suas sutis entrelinhas um descompasso. O descontrole resultante do abafamento subjetivo de uma mulher devido às funções sociais requeridas, vem como avalanche inevitável da violência que foi acumuluada em grãos toda vez que se sentiu calada, substituída, abandonada, diminuída, violentada durante toda a vida. A conexão com a personagem é natural, e o tempo que se propõe a passar com ela é realmente necessário para enxergar além do que o corriqueiro pode tentar mascarar, mas que está ali e isso não se pode negar.

Film School Drop Outs - Weekly Challenge 2019
Week 33 - Auteur - Chantal Akerman

What can I possibly say about this film after a first watch? Not much. It is pure contemplative cinema, and as one, it succeeds in conveying a sense of intimacy to the viewer with Jeanne, a widowed woman, whose life is captured through static cameras for a three-day period, embodied in a 201 minutes long film; a runtime that might be intimidating at first, but which progressively moves faster as we start getting used to Dielman's manners, and inevitably get attached to her. Now, this film would need a rewatch to examine Akerman's statatement about rupture of routine, whose perils are insinuated in that unexpected ending.