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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

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“Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable.” Sight & Sound

Catherine Fowler's study positions Jeanne Dielman as a 'contrary' classic, its contrariness arising from director Chantal
Akerman's decision to frame an unliberated housewife through a kind of 'slow looking'. By choosing to stay with Jeanne in the kitchen, the film both 'differences' the canon and diverges from Akerman's liberated early films, which involved the rejection of domestic space, married life and the heterosexual script.

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