Jeanne Dielman can initially absorb, fascinate but, ultimately, ends up less than the sum of its parts
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09/29/09
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
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Reviews for Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
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...a transfixing experience that inspires a kind of solemn awe on an initial viewing, but upon reflection it yields its fair share of humor.
09/26/09
maddening, hypnotic, fascinating, mundane, electrifying, mind-numbing, and ultimately shocking
09/14/09
It's very simply a great film, if for no other reason than the fact that it's brave enough to focus almost entirely on those things that ordinary films leave out, or take for granted.
08/28/09
... an epic portrait of a quotidian life where every gesture through the 200-minute study becomes important and the slips in routine reverberate like aftershocks of an earthquake.
08/23/09
There are as many ways to understand Jeanne Dielman as there are ways to understand art and life itself... not an easy nor a straightforward movie, and one must meet it at least halfway if not further.
05/11/09
Jeanne Dielman is immersion cinema, a brilliant example of maximal minimalism that fuses viewer with subject so profoundly, the marathon experience transcends simple spectatorship.
01/21/09
Neglected but critically acclaimed arthouse classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking.
08/06/08
Chantal Akerman's feature is one of the few 'feminist' movies that's as interesting aesthetically as politically.
02/09/06
Jeanne Dielman deals in unadorned facts. It's about the looks and sounds of ordinary things and people, which it records with such... unsettling clarity that it has the effect of finding threats in mundane objects and doom in [the] commonplace.
01/15/05
Top CriticIn Akerman's masterpiece... small gestures take on a visual richness that is also the richness of foiled narrative expectation.
06/12/04
A neglected classic.
07/30/03
Akerman forges a major statement, not only in a feminist context but also in a way that tells us something about the lives we all live.
06/17/03
Top CriticJeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is Chantal Akerman’s 1975 experiment in film form, an astonishing work of subtextual feminism which has to count as one of the seminal films of the 1970s.
06/17/03
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