When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival ...

Back in 1976, Le Monde hailed Belgian film-maker Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as “the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of cinema”. Such praise ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (the full title) is written and directed by acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman - it was her second feature film after directing I, You ...

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound's once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its ...

Belgian director of "La Captive" Chantal Akerman tell us about her latest film, a provocative story of love and obsession.

"La Captive" begins like a detective story. Yes, it does, especially Hitchcock's "Vertigo", in the sense that we first see a man stalking a woman.

Akerman made so many films inspired by her own life, like Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978), and indeed often turned her camera on herself, acting in her owns films such as Je tu il elle (1974), as well ...

In Chantal Akerman’s film La Captive (2000), a loose adaptation of the fifth volume of Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time published in 1923, a young man named Simon attempts to ...

Chantal Akerman retrospective, 16 films. Cycle 1 on September 25, Cycle 2 on October 23. "Chantal Akerman. Travelling" Jeu de paume, Paris 8th arrondissement. From September 28 to January 29, 2025.

Christine Smallwood’s new book on Chantal Akerman’s Proust adaptation, La Captive, is, among many things, a meditation on the act of criticism. Published as part of The Decadent Editions series from ...

Chantal Akerman (1950 to 2015) was born in Brussels. At 15, she discovered Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (1965), which inspired her to take up filmmaking. She joined Brussels film school (INSAS) in ...

Directors’ Fortnight went to premiere Akerman’s films, including Golden Eighties (1986), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000) and Tombée de Nuit sur Shanghaï (2007).