Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna)

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Cast

Aurore Clement
as Anna

Jean-Pierre Cassel
as Daniel

Lea Massari
as Mother

Magali Noël
as Ida

Helmut Griem
as Heinrich

Hanns Zischler

Critic Reviews for Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna)

Audience Reviews for Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (The Meetings of Anna)

• Oct 07, 2011

  When a life is either absorbed by earthly occupations and business (carried with passion or without it) or it is (un)willingly handled without balance, our acquaintances and experiences become little fragments. It is our decision, although not entirely under our control, to transform these little fragments into a big puzzle called life. This puzzle, as big or small as it may be, can be dark, light, round, squared or even shapeless. However, if one of these hundreds or thousands of pieces are forgotten, an inner void slowly starts to grow. The bigger the amount of missing pieces, the bigger the void. The more we let time fly without them, it is harder to put them back on coherently. Alienation is a complex theme. 99/100
  Edgar C Super Reviewer
• Sep 15, 2011

  In "Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna," Anna Silver(Aurore Clement), a film director, checks into a hotel in Essen, West Germany for a showing of her latest film. When she gets to her room, she places a call to Italy and is told of a wait of two hours. Relaxing, she does not even take off her coat or shoes at first before being called down to the theater and an interview. Upon her return, she is accompanied by Heinrich(Helmut Griem), a schoolteacher. During their lovemaking, she stops, saying that she does not love him.(Since when has that ever stopped anybody?) At least, maybe she could meet his daughter the following day before she leaves? I understand how some people could get frustrated with the static pace of "Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna." Even though I feared the DVD was skipping in a couple of places and would have liked the performances to be a little more animated, the movie's slowness works well in contrast to Anna who is being pushed and pulled in several directions at once, not only all over Europe which has problems of its own going back to World War II, but also on a personal level which reflects back on writer-director Chantal Akerman whose early films, like this one, seem very autobiographical.(To punctuate this, her middle name is Anne.) For Anna, that comes down to a choice between a career and a family(she has had two abortions). That's not all as there is another direction which simultaneously excites her and frightens her which is mentioned in a searing confession towards the end of the movie.
  Walter M Super Reviewer

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