A classic of both feminist and experimental filmmaking, Chantal Akerman's marathon dissection of the life of Belgian housewife/mother/prostitute Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) stays on the surface of the details of Jeanne's humdrum daily life, as if it were a real-life, real-time documentary of an ordinary life, in the tradition of Agnès Varda's earlier New Wave landmark, Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961). Jeanne feeds her son, fixes potatoes, does the marketing, entertains gentlemen -- but things slowly, almost imperceptibly start to go wrong, first those potatoes, and then, finally, something more shocking. Akerman sets out to capture the rhythm of daily life, even as that pace sets us up, after several hours, for the almost tossed-off, blink-and-you'll-miss-it climax.




STARS.........: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
DIRECTOR......: Chantal Akerman
WRITERS.......: Chantal Akerman
GENRE.........: Drama
RATING........: 8.0/10  3,511 votes
IMDB link.....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073198
RUNTIME.......: 3h 21mn
SIZE..........: 2.84GB
VIDEO CODEC...: x264 ([email protected])
RESOLUTION....: 938x572
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.66:1
BITRATE.......: 1800 Kbps
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO.........: French AC3 1.0 192kbps
SOURCE........: Cinéart Chantal Akerman in the Seventies Collection PAL DVD9
SUBTITLES.....: ENG  
CHAPTERS......: Yes
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2016-04-23



The Cinéart and Criterion DVDs use the same source and are virtually identical. The Cinéart is PAL so has a higher vertical resolution.




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