Chantal Akerman - Altijd Onderweg (2024)

Name: Chantal Akerman - Altijd Onderweg
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-07-06T20:21:00+02:00
Rating: 3.07

Documentary | 53 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 53 minuten

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Pieter Verbiest and Katherine Schmelzer

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Chantal Akerman - Altijd Onderweg plot

Chantal Akerman was only 25 when her critically acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' was released in 1975. It is a daring film, with which she immediately made a name for herself and will influence many generations of filmmakers. But Akerman is much more than that. In the years that followed, she made documentaries, comedies, a musical, installations, etc. Until her death in 2015, she will continue to reinvent herself. In the documentary, employees and admirers talk about her courage, her daring and her eternal search. Interviews with: Claire Atherton, Eric de Kuyper and Jan Decorte.

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mrklm

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30 June 2024 at 13:04

Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) made Jeanne Dielman in 1975, which, after a vote among hundreds of film critics, dethroned Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in 2022 as the best film of all time according to the British Film Institute. Reason enough for a look back at the oeuvre of the idiosyncratic Akerman, who filmed Jeanne Dielman with an almost exclusively female crew and continually tried to reinvent herself. Her good friend and right-hand man Marilyn Watelet tells us more about the enigmatic Belgian filmmaker using fragments from films such as Saute Ma Ville (1971), Golden Eighties (1986), D'Est(1991) and the impressive No Home Movie (2015), which she made just before she took her own life. Certainly an invitation to immerse yourself in her oeuvre, but Akerman herself remains mainly a mystery.