Keswick Film Festival

Synopsis

"Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" was voted the best film of all time by Sight and Sound in 2022. Jeanne Dielman is a lonely young widow, living with her son Sylvain following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.

"Jeanne Dielman is inescapably a woman’s film, consciously feminist in its turn to the avant garde. On the side of content, the film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time prostitute over the course of three days; on the side of form, it rigorously records her domestic routine in extended time and from a fixed camera position. In a film that, agonisingly, depicts women’s oppression, Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force." Laura Mulvey, BFI

Additional Screening: Saturday 8th March 2pm - Alhambra Screen 2

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